"You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?"

Kohe, J. Martin on choice   

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Buren, Abigail Van on listening
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"We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever."

Rich, Adrienne on love
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"As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son."

Rich, Adrienne on mothers   

"My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance."

Rich, Adrienne on children   

"Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts."

Stevens, Abel on courtesy
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

Pancoast, Mal on truth
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"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

Buren, Abigail Van on fights and fighting
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"Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter."

Propp Jr., Fred on life
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"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

Schuller, Robert H. on problems
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"Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder."

Schuller, Robert H. on success   

"The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?!"

Handey, Jack on problems
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"The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man."

Handey, Jack on wisdom   

"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex."

Handey, Jack on children
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"On the other hand you have different fingers "

Handey, Jack on   

" I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.' Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts (1949 - ) "

Handey, Jack on cynical
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"Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it."

Bucaro, Frank C. on procrastination
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"Those who easily forgive invite offenses."

Corneille, Pierre on forgiveness
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"One often calms one's grief by recounting it."

Corneille, Pierre on grief
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"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."

Schuller, Robert H. on past
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"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."

Schuller, Robert H. on life
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"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

Schuller, Robert H. on adversity
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"Man is the inventor of stupidity."

Gourmont, Remy De on stupidity
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"The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."

Gay, John on widowhood   

"Of what significance are the things you can forget."

Thoreau, Henry David on memory
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"Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored."

Sanders, George on bores and boredom
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"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."

Howe, Nathaniel on idleness
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"The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones."

Howe, Nathaniel on art
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"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."

Proverb on hope
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"Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do."

Proverb on life
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"He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably."

Proverb on medicine   

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has"

Ashley-Pitt, Alan on crowds
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"A mother's heart is always with her children."

Proverb on mothers
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"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

Gibran, Kahlil on mind
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"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge   

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper."

Gibran, Kahlil on exaggeration   

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

La Bruyere, Jean De on death
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"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

Gibran, Kahlil on modesty
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