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A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.: Kate Clinton
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.: Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.: Toni Morrison (1931 - )
When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.: Lord Falkland (1610 - 1643)
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The wisest men follow their own direction.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.: Spanish Proverb
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.: George Washington (1732 - 1799), letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.: Norm Papernick
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.: Anonymous
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.: Roy M. Goodman
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.: Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Love is the reason for it all.: Dorothy Fields
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.: Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
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