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- The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.
- John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
- Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.
- Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
- You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
- Vernon Howard
- War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
- M. F. K. Fisher
- The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
- It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
- Diana Spencer
- I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
- Lane Olinghouse
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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