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“But we are more than logical” #7

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
-German proverb

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #46

Change is one form of hope; change is to believe in tomorrow.
-Linda Ellerbee

Some people thrive on change. To them, something new means adventure and challenge. other people find change difficult. To them, new means uncertainty and the loss of familar things.
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“Ideas won’t keep…” #13

In real life, it only takes one to make a quarrel.
-Ogden Nash

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You and Other Human Souls #5

What “selfish” usually means is that a person or child isn’t doing what someone else would like.
-Kathleen Madden

Are you ever called “selfish” becuse someone wants you to go to a movie, play a game, or go out with friends when you are tired or have plans of your own? What is that person hoping [...]

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Rosiness or Gloomy Gay: On Viewing the World #6

Each of us carries a word in his heart, a “no” or a “yes.”
-Martin E. P. Seligman
Learned Optimism: How to change Your Mind and Your Life

A “no” person, a pessimist, focuses on why something is impossible, why things won’t work out. A “yes” person, an optmist, sees the possiblities. He or she expects things to [...]

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“How do you make a life?…” #6

To live only for future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountains that support life, not the top.
-Robert M. Pirsig
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The journey, not the arrival, manners. 
-Montaigne

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #3

One reason a dog is such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.
-National Enquirer

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“Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #3

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
-Pierre Corneille
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than its value.
-Charles Dudley Warner
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #69

The maxim “nothing avails but perfection” may be spelled PARALYSIS.
-Sir Winston Churchill

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“How do you make a life?…” #9

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
-D. H. Lawrence
An hour’s industry will do more to produce cheerfulness… than a month’s moaning. 
-Benjamin Franklin

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