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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- When you drink the water, remember the spring.
- Chinese Proverb
- Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
- Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
- I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
- David Sedaris
- The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
- Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
- Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
- Robert Orben
- The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
- David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
- No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten
- Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
- That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
- Simone de Beauvoir
- The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
- Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
- Alice Munro
- Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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