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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 11, 2026
That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.
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Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Northern Hospitality, 1994  
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003  
How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.
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Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013  
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)  

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