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- When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
- Whoopi Goldberg
- I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
- Whoopi Goldberg
- You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101, 1991
- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965
- The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
- Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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