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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

—Albert Schweitzer

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It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

—Jennifer Hudson

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One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

—Pythagoras

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

—Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

—William Blake

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You have to be careful who you let define your good.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

—Georges Rouault

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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

—Thomas Jefferson

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That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

—Lady Bird Johnson

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

—Maxine Hong Kingston

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I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.

—Jeff Melvoin

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People don't believe what you tell them./ They rarely believe what you show them./ They often believe what their friends tell them./ They always believe what they tell themselves./

—Seth Godin

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You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.

—Alexander Woo

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