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My Favorite

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." --Will Rogers

"When everything has to be right, something isn't." --Stanislaw Lec

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." --Voltaire

"Nothing in business is so valuable as time." --John H. Patterson

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had." --Erica Jong

"As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man." --St. John Chrysostom

"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self." --Joan Didion

"I am suspicious of guilt in myself and other people: it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast." --Lillian Hellman

"The ability to accept responsibility s the measure of the man." --Roy L. Smith

"It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!" --Merrill Markoe

"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." --Victor Kiam

"If you want to do something, do it!" --Plautus

"Why always, 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'" --Norman Douglas

"The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." --Helen Rowland

"A man is more complex, infinitely more so, than his thoughts." --Paul Valery

"The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing." --Anon

"True affluence is not needing anything." --Gary Snyder

"A laugh is a terrible weapon." --Kate O'Brien

"Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills." --Miguel de Cervantes (from Don Quixote)

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow" --Aesop

"That white horse you see in the park could be a zebra synchronized with the railings." --Ann Jellicoe (from The Knack)

"God help those who do not help themselves." --Wilson Mizener

"Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it." --Joseph Campbell

"Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else." --Thomas Fuller

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." --Toni Morrison

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness." --Thomas Jefferson

"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." --Kin Hubbard

"Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor." --John Milton

"A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement." --Ann Landers

"By-and-by never comes." --St. Augustine

"Faith is the only known cure for fear." --Lena K. Sadler
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