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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.: Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.: Foster's Law
Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.: Anonymous
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.: Slovenian Proverb
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Don’t be afraid of the answers. Be afraid of not asking the questions.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.: Shakti Gawain
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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-10-10
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Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.: Jerry Frankhauser