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The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid…
— Margot Asquith
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The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.
— Robert Ringer
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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
— William Shakespeare
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
— William Hazlitt
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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they…
— Tina Fey
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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
— Robert Browning
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.
— Caroline Myss
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It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.
— Louise Hay
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
— Mark Twain
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When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.
— Sean Stephenson
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A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won't find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from…
— Deepak Chopra
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a…
— Matthieu Ricard
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I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at…
— Joni Mitchell
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The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.
— John C. Maxwell
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From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but…
— David Simon
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We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my…
— John Denver
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35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children.…
— Jeff Bridges
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Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from…
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
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My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.
— Muhammad Yunus
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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The…
— John Quincy Adams
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Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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