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You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.: Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.: Bill Vaughan
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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The big thieves hang the little ones.: Czech Proverb
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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.: Bruce Cockburn
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.: Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.: Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.: Jessica Alba
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000