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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
- Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
- All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
- Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
- Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
- Japanese Proverb
- I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
- Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
- The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
- I like life. It's something to do.
- Ronnie Shakes
- Perseverance does not equal worthiness.
- Lawrence Kaplow, House M.D., Paternity, 2004
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