Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 04, 2014
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)  
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003  
We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!
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Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas  
One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010  

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