"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
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Monday, August 31, 2020
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
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Quincy Jones
"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth.""
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W. Lee Grant
"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings."
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Sunday, August 30, 2020
Michelangelo Buonarroti
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
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Alan Watts
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
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Stephen Ambrose
"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
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Lois McMaster Bujold
"Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard."
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Saturday, August 29, 2020
Madonna
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
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Hugh Macleod
"The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy."
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* This article was originally published here
Elizabeth Aston
"Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal."
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* This article was originally published here
Friday, August 28, 2020
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."
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Jane Austen
"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
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Victoria Holt
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
Daniel J. Boorstin
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
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Anonymous
"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day."
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Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness."
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Erica Jong
"The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses."
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* This article was originally published here
Brian Buckner
"People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same."
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020
W. Somerset Maugham
"I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world."
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A. Lawrence Lowell
"Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way."
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* This article was originally published here
Monday, August 24, 2020
Robbie Gass
"Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it."
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* This article was originally published here
Sophocles
"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."
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* This article was originally published here
Sunday, August 23, 2020
John F. Kennedy
"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'"
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* This article was originally published here
Henry Fielding
"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil."
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* This article was originally published here
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Sir Winston Churchill
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
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Friday, August 21, 2020
L. M. Montgomery
"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it."
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