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Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.: Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.: Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005)
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), address to the nation, November 28, 1963
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.: Alban Goodier
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.: Lord Brabazon (1884 - 1964)
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.: Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003