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Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path.… — Wayne Dyer
Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges. — James G. Stavridis
We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on… — Suze Orman
The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from… — Kurt Vonnegut
C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to… — Neal A. Maxwell
If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together,… — Richard Bach
I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of… — Richard M. Nixon
It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its… — John Seely Brown
Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all… — Fred Astaire
I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this… — Jennifer Lopez
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants… — Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These… — Annie Lennox
The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a person who has… — Raniero Cantalamessa
You know what comes next, of course. You know I'm writing this at my desk, on a Thursday, and day after tomorrow I'll put on… — James Autry
What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included… — Clementine Ford
As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel… — Deborra-Lee Furness
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused,… — Heather Mills
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. — George MacDonald
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events. — Steve Pavlina
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing… — Os Guinness
I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small.… — Jillian Michaels
Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides, perfect is boring. Today, instead of picking yourself apart in… — Jillian Michaels
Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken to pieces to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger. — Ashoka

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