"The purpose of life is to amount to……" — Abigail Van Buren
"The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all."
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41 Quotes by Abigail Van Buren
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no…
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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first…
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For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such.…
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off…
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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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