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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.: Moliere (1622 - 1673)
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.: Grenville Kleiser
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), 'Pro Plancio,' 54 B.C.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.: Wall Street Proverb
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.: Anonymous
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.: Anonymous
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.: Henry J. Tillman
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.: Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)