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"Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change."

Proust, Marcel on change
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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

Voltaire on divorce
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"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Hepburn, Katharine on rules
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"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

Hepburn, Katharine on joy
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"The truth is more important than the facts."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on truth    Share

"TV -- chewing gum for the eyes."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on vision    Share

"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on arrogance
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on architecture
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"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on life
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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't."

Wilson, Earl on gossip
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"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy on love
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"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."

Wilson, Earl on marriage    Share

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

Allen, James on circumstance
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"Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get."

Boswell, Nelson on extra mile    Share

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on life
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"I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."

Wagner, Jane on cynics and cynicism
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"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."

Wagner, Jane on complaints and complaining
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"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)"

Movie, Wizard of Oz on love
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"I know that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire, I'll never go any further than my own back yard. For if it isn't there, I never really lost it. (Dorothy)"

Movie, Wizard of Oz on desire    Share

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

Butler, Samuel on dogs
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"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on complaints and complaining
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"Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on self-improvement
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"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on relationship
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"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on problems
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"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on ambition
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"There is not grief that does not speak."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on grief
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"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on reason
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"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on service    Share

"What you think of me is none of my business."

Cole-Whittaker, Terry on opinions
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"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on hatred
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"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on imagination    Share

"He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on choice
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"One today is worth two tomorrows."

Franklin, Benjamin on present
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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