"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty thru good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present; it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. It is the day-in and out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else is there, it isn't enough." - Ann Landers
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"When you are grateful -- when you can see what you have -- you unlock blessings to flow in your life." - Suze Orman
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"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." - Dick Cavett
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." - Gore Vidal
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"The future will be better tomorrow." - Dan Quayle
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"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world." - Annie Lennox
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"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Some people come into your life as blessings, others come into your life as lessons." - Mother Teresa
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"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." - Evan Esar
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"That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." - Chinese Proverb
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"We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." - William O. Douglas
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"Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned." - Mark Twain
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"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." - Irish Proverb
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - John Adams
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"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser
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"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke
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"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison
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"For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost - But how you played the game." - Grantland Rice
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"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything." - Floyd Dell
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"You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner. You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. You are every single second of every single day. So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and let the colors fill your mind until there is nothing left to do but explode. There are no wrong answers. Inspiration is everything. Sit back, relax, and take it all in. Now, go out and create something." - Jac Vanek
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"One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances." - Elizabeth Aston
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"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. So if you’re feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the change taking place in your life is a beginning, not an ending." – Neale Donald Walsch
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"Every mile you go in the wrong direction is really a two mile error. Unlearning is twice as hard as learning." - Author Unknown
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"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
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"A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores." - Terry Pratchett
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"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished." - Og Mandino
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"Courage is asking for a time-out, to shed a tear, to dust yourself off, and then getting back in the ring to fight like you've never fought before." - Author Unknown
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." - Bertrand Russell
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"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - William Wordsworth
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"Either do it or don't do it. No more wishy-washy, half-hearted attempts. Either say 'no' to achievement or dig in and get to the bottom of the persistent incongruence between what you say and what you do." - Dan Kennedy
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"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." - John Ruskin
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"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." - Sydney Smith
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"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is a journey and Love makes the trip worthwhile." - Author Unknown
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"People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person." - Author Unknown
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"Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return." - Og Mandino
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family." - Confucius
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"A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness." - Ann Radcliffe
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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can be grateful that thorn bushes have roses." - Tom Wilson
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"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it." - Chinese Proverb
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"If you can't beat them, join them. If you can't join them, it's probably because you just tried to beat them." - Author Unknown
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"When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens -- and when it happens, it lasts." - John Wooden
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"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin." - Heinrich Heine
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." - Samuel Goldwyn
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"We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise." - Edward Sellner
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"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction." - Malcolm Gladwell
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"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can." - Douglas Pagels
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"Food is an important part of a balanced diet." - Fran Lebowitz
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
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"If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud." - Mary Englebreit
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"Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both." - Joseph Wood Krutch
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Sometimes a short walk down memory lane is all it takes to appreciate where you are today." - Susan Gale
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"Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." - Pamela Ribon
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"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." - Jane Howard
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"The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O." - Martin Mull
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"To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit." - Robert J. Furey
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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them." - Henry Bolingbroke
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"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France
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"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?" - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments." - Benjamin Franklin
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"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." - Whitney Young Jr.
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream." - Khalil Gibran
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"Tolerance is the virtue of a man that has no convictions." - C.S. Lewis
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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it." - Samuel Johnson
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"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." - Herbert Agar
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"Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air." - Eric Wald
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"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom." - John Locke
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"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher." - Elbert Hubbard
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"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come." - Henri Nouwen
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"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.)" - Daniel Dennett
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"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand." - Mark Twain
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"Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken." - Robert Tew
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"Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys." - Gail Pool
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"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date." - Dale Carnegie
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