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I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm… — Drew Bledsoe
I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been… — Jennifer Saunders
Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure… — Mike Yaconelli
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes… — Matt Ridley
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. — Richard Armour
Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success — Herb Brooks
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past. — Lewis H. Lapham
Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if… — Gay Hendricks
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the… — Paul Tournier
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love. — Eknath Easwaran
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of… — Florence King
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought… — E. Stanley Jones
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to… — Arthur W. Pink
I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair.… — Jenny Eclair
When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the… — Sara Blakely
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream. — Eric Liu
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead… — Lorna Luft
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do… — Brice Marden
The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us,… — Emily Post
Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company.… — Peter Mayle
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the… — A B Simpson
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead,… — Milarepa
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the… — Michel Onfray
Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy. — Bikram Choudhury
When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more. — Tom Rath

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