"Our envy of others devours us most of all."
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Edward Fitzgerald
"Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old."
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* This article was originally published here
Joss Whedon
"I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations."
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* This article was originally published here
Monday, June 29, 2020
Margaret Cho
"Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart."
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* This article was originally published here
Dr. Joyce Brothers
"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words."
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* This article was originally published here
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Henry David Thoreau
"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."
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* This article was originally published here
Millicent Fenwick
"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."
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* This article was originally published here
Tony Blair
"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."
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* This article was originally published here
Willa Cather
"Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious."
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* This article was originally published here
Saturday, June 27, 2020
William Hazlitt
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
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* This article was originally published here
The Work of the Chariot
"When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time."
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* This article was originally published here
John Quincy Adams
"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."
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* This article was originally published here
Henry James
"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
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* This article was originally published here
Friday, June 26, 2020
Harry S Truman
"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do."
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Norman Maclean
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."
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* This article was originally published here
Meryl Streep
"I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life."
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* This article was originally published here
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Sir Richard Francis Burton
"Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own."
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* This article was originally published here
Michel de Montaigne
"I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can."
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* This article was originally published here
Henry Moore
"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it."
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* This article was originally published here
Melanie Benjamin
"When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned."
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* This article was originally published here
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Mark Twain
"When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one."
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* This article was originally published here
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness."
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* This article was originally published here
Kathryn L. Nelson
"I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself."
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* This article was originally published here
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Sefer Hasidim
"If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant."
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* This article was originally published here
Sean Stewart
"One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong."
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* This article was originally published here
Jane Austen
"Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."
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