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Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.: Meryl Streep (1949 - )
If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don’t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you’ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.: Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.: Bobcat Goldthwaite
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-10-06
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv
If you’re... asking yourself why I have this success and you don’t, don’t be angry with me—stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.: Marquis de Vauvenargues
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.: Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
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Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.: Unknown
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978
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