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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #81

Experienced time occurs when we are able to stop worrying about the past and the future long enough to live for a moment in the present, to feel and think and savor. It is this kind of time we feel lacking in our lives.
-Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

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“Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #4

Never slap a king unless you intend to kill him.
-Ancient proverb

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #21

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him or her by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
-E. W. Howe

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“How do you make a life?…” #5

The definition of success is setting goals and achieving them.
-Susan Schenkel
Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours. 
-Doug Larson

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #41

You never know what you can do without until you try.
-Franklin P. Adams

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“How do you make a life?…” #8

The difficult in life is the choice.
-George Moore
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. 
-Elbert Hubbard

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #88

The greatest act of love is to pay attention.
-Michael J. Arlen

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #21

Everybody knows how to weep, but it takes a fine texture of mind to know… how to enjoy the bright and happy things in life.
-Oliver Bell Bunce

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Rosiness or Gloomy Gay: On Viewing the World #9

Our workplace and schools operate on the conventional assumption that success results from a combination of talent and desire. When failure occurs, it is because either talent or desire is missing. But failure can also occur whe talent and desire are present in abundance but optimism is missing.
-Martin E. P. Seligman
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“If you wish to know what a person is…” #3

These quotations are about two kinds of unpleasant people. You probably have at least one of each in your life. If you’re “lucky”, you know someone who could be described by both of these sayings.

One is not superior simply because one sees the world as odious.
-Chteaubriand
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