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There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.: Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.: Belgian Proverb
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 08-24-04
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.: Robertson Davies
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 02-23-10
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I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, The Quest, 1995
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.: Alan Bennett
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.: Amelia Burr
Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.: Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
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There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.: Carlos A. Urbizo
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton