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Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering.: 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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Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.: William Raspberry
I like life. It's something to do.: Ronnie Shakes
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.: Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
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)
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.: The Belzer Rabbi
No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.: Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.: Saskya Pandita
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Oh for a book and a shady nook...: John Wilson (1785 - 1854)
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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
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