"Most of us are experts at solving other……" — Nan Fairbrother
"Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves."
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12 Quotes by Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrother has 12 quotes on this site.
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden,…
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a…
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that…
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in…
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A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The…
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Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole…
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It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the…
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest…
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we…
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More Advice Quotes
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
— Sri Aurobindo
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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The worst men often give the best advice.
— Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
— Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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