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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
- Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
- Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."
- Paul Graham, September 2004
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
- Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
- I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
- Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
- Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- A joke's a very serious thing.
- Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
- A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
- Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
- Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
- Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
- Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
- Sheila Graham
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