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"The elegance of honesty needs no adornment."

Browne, Merry on honesty
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"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

Chanel, Coco on elegance    Share

"For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is."

Lacroix, Christian on elegance
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"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

James, P. D. on effort
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Belafonte, Harry on censorship
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"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

Epicurus on skill
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"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."

Scott, Sir Walter on adversity
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"Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fallibility
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"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."

Michelangelo on beauty
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"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on simplicity
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"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading."

Jewett, Sarah Orne on tact and tactfulness
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"It is tact that is golden, not silence."

Butler, Samuel on tact and tactfulness
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"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

Dunne, Finley Peter on motivation
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"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on night
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"Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with."

Fields, W. C. on smile
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"When you can't solve the problem, manage it."

Schuller, Robert H. on problems
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"Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise."

Thomas, John M. on happiness
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."

West, Mae on personality
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"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake."

Ray, Marie Beyon on action
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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"Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful."

Unknown, Source on charm
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"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

Harris, Sidney J. on self-conflict
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"Follow your bliss."

Campbell, Joseph on dream
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"Life loves the liver of it."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"Often the search proves more profitable than the goal."

Konigsburg, E. L. on goals    Share

"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on leadership
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"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."

Buck, Pearl S. on understanding
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"Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads."

Lenus, Nikolaus on happiness    Share

"The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started."

Unknown, Source on action
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"From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash."

Tucker, Sophie on money
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