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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.: Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
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Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.: William Hale White
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.: Robbie Gass
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When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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My friends are my estate.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.: Alexander A. Bogomoletz
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We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.: Kanye West
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)