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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

—Herbert Read

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The first wealth is health.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

—Samuel Butler

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

—John Keats

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I was adored once too.

—William Shakespeare

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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

—Edith Wharton

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Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes them want to help rural villagers gain better access to clean water.

—Gretchen Rubin in Happier at Home

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When two people are meant to be together—to enjoy love and life together, to help each other, or to learn something—love is just there. Where it comes from and why is one of the great mysteries of life. You don't and can't make love happen; it just happens.

—Gina Lake in What about Love?

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I always have someplace else I'd rather be, even if I don't know where that is.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

—Darren Hardy in The Compound Effect

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If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

—Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

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He took your sweet, funny, perfect heart…and he destroyed it. Why do you keep letting him do it over and over again?

—Jess Rothenberg in The Catastrophic History of You and Me

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

—Robert Frost

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