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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
- Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895
- Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.
- Shakti Gawain
- Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
- Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
- It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
- Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Paul Eldridge
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'
- But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Happy Death
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