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- Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- I couldn’t kill myself, couldn’t let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments they’d changed their minds, but there was no boulder to grab on to.
- Suzanne Young, The Program. 2013
- It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- There's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it. You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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