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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

—Robinson Jeffers

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All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

—John Green

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Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

—Ali Vincent

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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

—Steve Pavlina

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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

—Walt Whitman

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If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.

—Liz Friedman

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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

—Lawrence Bixby

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Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.

—Amber Deckers

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

—Thích Nhất Hạnh

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There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us.

—Lisa Williams

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Reading is no substitute for action.

—Colleen Wainwright

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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

—John Ruskin

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He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.

—Heather Armstrong

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