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Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.

—Jennifer Neal

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Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

—Albert Camus

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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

—Horace Mann

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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

—Ellen Goodman

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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

—Peter McWilliams

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It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

—Ali Vincent

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There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

—Sean Stewart

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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

—Jane Austen

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I cannot live without books.

—Thomas Jefferson

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It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

—Howard Thurman

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Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

—Lord Chesterfield

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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

—Gordon Atkinson

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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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