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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
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I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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Reality continues to ruin my life.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.: Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.: Spanish Proverb
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It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.: Eckhart Tolle
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.: Martin Myers
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
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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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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)