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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 12, 2026
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993  
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)  
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764  
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811  
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