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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave this way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it. -- Leo Buscaglia

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. -- John Adams

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. -- Franklin P. Jones

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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. --  A.A. Milne

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Life’s Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. -- Benjamin Franklin

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A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. -- Dave Meurer

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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust

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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. -- John Adams

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I’m far more interested in the ties that bind than the spaces that divide. -- Jennifer Hritz

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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. -- Abraham Lincoln

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Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. -- Unknown

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. -- Lester J. Pourciau

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. -- Herbert Bayard Swope

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They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -- Confucius

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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -- St. Basil

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For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. -- Clarence E. Hodges

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June 14, 1946 -- This was the best day that happened to me when I was three years old (and every year since). It just took 19 years before I knew it. -- dh

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Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. -- Douglas Adams

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Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. -- Unknown

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -- Agatha Christie

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The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it. -- William James

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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude

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She had the Midas touch. Everything she touched turned into a muffler. -- Lisa Smerling

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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. -- Mae West

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Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered. -- Stephen Cosgrove

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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. -- Hannah Whitall Smith

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Our heirs, whatever or whoever they may be, will explore space and time to degrees we cannot currently fathom. They will create new melodies in the music of time. There are infinite harmonies to be explored. -- Clifford Pickover

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust

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With years a richer life begins, The spirit mellows: Ripe age gives tone to violins, Wine, and good fellows. -- John Townsend Trowbridge