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- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
- Octavio Paz (1914 - )
- My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
- Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
- Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.
- Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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