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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria read more
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, read more
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking read more
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined read more
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. read more
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as read more
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.