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I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.: Dr. Ana M Guzman
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.: Jack Layton, Letter to Canada, 08-20-2011
Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.: Robert Veninga
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.: Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
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All appears to change when we change.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Blaming another person for a problem often keeps us from examining the different possibilities that may underlie the issue.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.: Gene McSweeney, Grey Water Photography, 06-04-2006
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Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.: Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973), O Magazine, October 2003
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Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?: Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.: Doug Larson
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Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?: John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.: Daniel Considine
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.: Joan Baez (1941 - )