"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

Rogers, Will on gossip
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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt on gossip
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"Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people."

Walters, Barbara on gossip   

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."

Buck, Pearl S. on age and aging
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"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

Ball, Lucille on age and aging
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"Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind."

Seldes, Gilbert on humor   

"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth."

Borge, Victor on humor
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."

Hughes, Langston on humor
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"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on humor
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"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused."

Maclaine, Shirley on humor
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"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."

Martin, Steve on humor   

"Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else."

Rothschild, William E. on humor
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"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."

Ball, Ivern on past
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"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."

Osmond, Marie on past
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"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."

George, Boy on acting and actors   

"Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice."

Jones, Franklin P. on law and lawyers
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

Mead, Margaret on humankind
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"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

Frost, Robert on power
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"Nowadays people can be divided into three classes -- the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves"

Wilson, Earl on debt   

"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."

Benedict, Ruth on debt   

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

Whitehead, Alfred North on familiarity
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"If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage."

Unknown, Source on debt
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"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Gifts make their way through stone walls."

Proverb on gifts   

"What we share with another ceases to be our own."

Quinet, Edgar on gifts
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"I have only one counsel for you -- be master."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control   

"You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are."

Brown, Les on character
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"Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success."

Brown, Les on responsibility
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"The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience."

Brown, Les on possibilities
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"I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom."

Brown, Les on life
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness
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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha on control
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"Nothing external to you has any power over you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on control
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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily."

Ziglar, Zig on motivation
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"Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves."

Ziglar, Zig on money
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