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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.: Ethel Barrett
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07
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Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.: Elias Schwartz
There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.: Ann Richards
The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.: Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight, 2002
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.: Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
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Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.: Coleman Cox
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.: Anne Lamott
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
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