Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 28, 2014
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
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Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)  
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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Bertha Calloway  
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000  
The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
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Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07  

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