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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.: Miriam Beard
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 08-24-04
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!: Laurie Anderson
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.: Stephen King (1947 - ), "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
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Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.: White Eagle
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.: Graffito, in Los Angeles
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), 300 B.C.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.: The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.: Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101