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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Prejudices: Second Series, 1920
Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air.: Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
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You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.": H. E. Martz
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Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836