Tag: quotation
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April 14, 2008 02:56 PM EDT --
More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.
- Duncan Hines, food critic
Whenever you get in the car, what's the first thing you do before leaving the . . .
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June 24, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it.
- Arabian proverb
This quote can be read in a few ways, and all of them are worth thinking about.
First, complimenting . . .
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March 21, 2008 12:08 PM EDT --
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When someone wrongs or offends you, it is so easy to make up ways to get back at them. But why waste . . .
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April 06, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.
- Anonymous
This quotation is perfect for me because I tend to worry too much. Sometimes, . . .
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May 02, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost every day, we have the opportunity not to be a coward.
- Spanish proverb.
The world and the future can be scary. . . .
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May 09, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
We're always getting ready to live, but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
There is no lesson for today. You have permission to stop thinking for a moment and just enjoy yourself. . . .
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May 23, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese proverb
Possible mentors and teachers can be found everywhere and anywhere. Everyone you've . . .
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March 29, 2008 04:47 PM EDT --
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas . . .
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April 01, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
- Steve Young
I look at my goals as ways to compete against . . .
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April 09, 2008 11:51 AM EDT --
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights icon
When problems . . .
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April 23, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
- Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu's teachings
Change is the natural order of the world. When . . .
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May 28, 2008 01:52 PM EDT --
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim, short-story writer, novelist, poet
The secret to happiness is not to get what you want, . . .
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June 02, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X, American spokesman for the Nation of Islam
Who tries to put together a puzzle without seeing a picture of the finished . . .
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June 09, 2008 12:04 PM EDT --
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
- Eleanor Roosevelt, human rights activist
If you met yourself, would you want to stick . . .
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March 28, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison."
- Francis Bacon
What do you do to live a healthy lifestyle?
I try to get enough sleep, eat well, and . . .
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April 18, 2008 12:44 PM EDT --
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain, writer and satirist . . .
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May 21, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
- Calvin Coolidge, American president
There's a growing tendency for people to want to have it all. Not wanting to sacrifice . . .
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March 24, 2008 04:07 PM EDT --
Do not be afraid to ask dumb questions. They are easier to handle than dumb mistakes.
- Unknown
Remember that there are no stupid questions, except the ones that go unasked.
What are your . . .
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March 27, 2008 01:38 PM EDT --
"A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for."
-Anonymous
It is easy to take the easy way out, right? But are you missing out on opportunities . . .
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March 27, 2008 02:38 PM EDT --
"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention."
-Barbara Walters
Sometimes you may feel that a small deed will not make a difference. Just remember that every . . .
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