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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
— Maya Angelou
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If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel…
— Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
— Carrie Fisher
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
— Patty Duke
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
— Manly Hall
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
— Helen Keller
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I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
— Dave Matthews
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
— Andre Maurois
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If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy…
— Joyce Meyer
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I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
— Joyce Meyer
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There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to…
— Mike Mills
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