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Being Strong

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

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Change

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

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Emile Zola

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

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Epictetus

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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Change

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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Erica Jong

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Being Strong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

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Courage

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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Effort

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

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4th Of July

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

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Erma Bombeck

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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Ernest Hemingway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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Courage

Courage is grace under pressure.

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Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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Ernest Hemingway

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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