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I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
Life is a long lesson in humility.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.: Langston Coleman
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.: Max Frisch
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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.: Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
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It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.: Isabel Colegate
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There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.: Cullen Hightower
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.: John Churton Collins
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.: Thomas Szasz
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.: Phyllis Diller
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It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.: Captain J. A. Hadfield
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