"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want."

Sinetar, Marsha on difficulties
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"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Miller, Arthur on regret
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"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."

Maslow, Abraham H. on adaptability
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"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on eyes
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on friends and friendship
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"Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on honesty
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"A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on illusion
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"Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night."

Edwards, Robert C. on dishonesty   

"You are only what you are when no one is looking."

Edwards, Robert C. on appearance
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"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!"

Hoffman, Barbara on worry   

"You can't make wrong work."

Waterhouse, Gerald on honesty   

"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on bores and boredom   

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on courage
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"Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are always trying to please others."

Edwards, Robert C. on trying
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"Debt is the worst poverty."

Fuller, Thomas on debt
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"A good garden may have some weeds."

Fuller, Thomas on faults
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"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

Fuller, Thomas on life
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"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."

Fuller, Thomas on misfortunes
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"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

Fuller, Thomas on chance
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"Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather."

Fuller, Thomas on vow   

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on absence
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"When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty."

Fuller, Thomas on argument
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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

Shaw, George Bernard on opportunity
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."

Canetti, Elias on autobiography
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"Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out."

Chekhov, Anton on health
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him."

Proverb, Chinese on enemies
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"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."

Chekhov, Anton on solitude
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr."

Suso, Heinrich on suffering
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"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

Waitley, Denis on expectation
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John on dream
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on dogs
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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on enemies
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Lincoln, Abraham on failure
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"No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

Lincoln, Abraham on fights and fighting
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on fools and foolishness
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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