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Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
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Spanish Proverb
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
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Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Jackie Mason (1934 - )
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
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George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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Francis Maitland Balfour
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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