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- It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
- The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.
- W. Lee Grant
- If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.
- Kanye West
- I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), 20th Anniversary DVD
- The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.
- Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
- Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
- Wayne Dyer
- We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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