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“Ideas won’t keep…” #26

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-Joseph Fort Newton

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“How do you make a life?…” #10

Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-David Lloyd George
You have to be careful about being too careful.
-Beryl Pfizer

Crossing a chasm in life might be making a commitment to marry or have a child, borrowing enough money to do something right, starting a business, [...]

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #9

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
-G. K. Chesterton
Good fences make good neighbors.
-Robert Frost

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #8

When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay one to yourself.
-Mark Twain

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #46

No other society ever expected its creative and professional class to function without support. Now, of course, working women do just that.
-Allan Silver

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #7

Anyone who is any good is different from anyone else.
-Felix Frankfurter

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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
Zen and the Art of Mororcycle Maintenance
The journey, not the arrival, manners. 
-Montaigne

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #49

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
-Swedish proverb

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #43

If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.
-The Koran

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #15

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed ours.
-Jessamyn West

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