June 2012
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
– Pearl Bailey
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
– Pearl Bailey
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The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
– J. H. Holmes
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It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of...
– Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but...
– W. Somerset Maugham
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
– George Eliot
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
– J. K. Rowling
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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
– Laozi (Lao Tzu)
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it,...
– Lord Chesterfield
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do what you can with what you have where you are.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Life is short.
Break the rules. Forgive quickly.
Kiss slowly. Love truly....
– htat´s gonna be my “mantra”
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
– Lao-Tzu
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
– Aldous Huxley
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Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
– Oscar Wilde
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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn’t.
– Gerhard Kocher
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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
– Nikki Giovanni
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend;...
– William Shakespeare
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The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
– Frank Dane
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it...
– Agnes Repplier
Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize speech in Oslo →
Aung San Suu Kyi today pledged to keep up her struggle for democracy as she
San Suu Kyi (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
finally delivered her Nobel Peace Prize speech, 21 years after winning the award while under house arrest
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vid of a little girl lying down on the grave of her mother every night, hoping to see her again
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which...
– Alice Hoffman
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The difference between can and cannot is only three letters. Three letters that...
– Sasson Remez
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I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s...
– Mandino Og
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death...
– W. Somerset Maugham
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If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve obviously...
– Michelle Walker
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I never worked a day in my life. It’s not work when you love what...
– David Shakarian
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A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about...
– Lewis B. Hershey
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
– Elizabeth Bowen
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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn’t.
– Gerhard Kocher
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth...
– Benjamin Franklin
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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you...
– Robert H. Schuller
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is...
– Leo Buscaglia
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks...
– Henry Fielding
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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who...
– Walter Bagehot
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What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when...
– Burton Rascoe
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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he...
– Samuel Smiles