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We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.: Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.: Peter McWilliams
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Life itself is a quotation.: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.: Sharon Salzberg
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.: Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.: Erica Jong
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.: Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)