November 2011
31 posts
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“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your...”
– Charles Dickens
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift…and may...”
– Bob Dylan
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“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
– Alice Walker
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“I can resist everything except temptation.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain
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“Happiness is always a by product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and...”
– Robertson Davies
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“A man’s heart away from nature becomes hard; lack of respect for growing,...”
– Luther Standing Bear
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“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent...”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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“Never let yesterday use up too much of today.”
– Will Rogers
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind, listen to the birds. And...”
– Eubie Blake
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“Never feel self pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be...”
– Millicent Fenwick
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“…before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself....”
– Harper Lee
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“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all...”
– Joseph Addison
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who,...”
– Horace
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“Time is the wisest counselor.”
– Pericles
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“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
– Gail Sheehy
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“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the...”
– Saint Augustine
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“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we...”
– Moliere
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“A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.”
– Anonymous
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“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the...”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings...”
– H. L. Mencken
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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: / Man never is, but always to be...”
– Alexander Pope
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“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortunes.”
– Plutarch
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“All life is 6 to 5 against.”
– Damon Runyon
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“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.”
– Henrik Ibsen
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“Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.”
– Voltaire
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“The future comes one day at a time.”
– Dean Acheson
October 2011
61 posts
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“This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no...”
– William Lyon Phelps
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“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
– Thomas Paine
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“If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.”
– Erma Bombeck
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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
– Samuel Butler
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“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
– Norman Cousins
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
– Josh Billings
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“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...”
– Samuel Butler
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“Life is an echo. What you send out, you get back. What you give, you get.”
– Anonymous
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“When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when...”
– George Santayana
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“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“He has tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the...”
– Honore de Balzac
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“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands...”
– Jean Anouilh
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“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying...”
– Dale Carnegie
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“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,...”
– Lin Yutang
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“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never...”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted thiry...”
– Muhammad Ali
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“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who...”
– George Orwell
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“If all misfortunes were laid in common heap whence everyone must take an equal...”
– Socrates