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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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Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motion for action.

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Euripides

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.

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F. Burton Howard

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

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