Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility. ~Patricia Briggs
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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