February 26, 2010
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is (except) merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."
Herman Melville
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12:09 AM
February 25, 2010
"If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear."
Mark Twain
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12:58 AM
February 24, 2010
"It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals."
Beverley Nichols, British gardener, writer
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12:55 AM
February 23, 2010
"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source."
Ron Nesen
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12:52 AM
February 22, 2010
"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."
Doug Horton
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12:49 AM
February 19, 2010
"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."
Buddha
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12:00 AM
February 18, 2010
"If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us."
Anonymous
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12:42 AM
February 17, 2010
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
Arthur Schopenhauer
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12:41 AM
February 16, 2010
" We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance."
Paul Boese
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12:39 AM
February 15, 2010
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."
Montaigne
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12:37 AM
February 12, 2010
"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."
Rabindranath Tagor (1861 - 1941)
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12:03 AM
February 11, 2010
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
Ellen Goodman
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12:01 AM
February 10, 2010
"You can do anything, but not everything."
David Allen
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12:58 AM
February 9, 2010
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
Zig Ziglar
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12:56 AM
February 8, 2010
"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
A. A. Milne
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12:55 AM
February 5, 2010
"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger."
Saint Basil
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12:00 AM
February 4, 2010
"Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world."
William James
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12:00 AM
February 3, 2010
"The ultimate challenge in life is to neither allow our fantasies to bring us too much suffering nor to prevent us from living fully."
Earon Davis
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12:15 AM
February 2, 2010
"If your body is tired, seek out some fluidly moving part of nature: a fireplace, a river, a field of wind-blown wheat, a thundering surf. Watching and listening to the patterned disorder of the universe is one of the deep soul's favorite pastimes."
Martha Beck, The Joy Diet
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12:14 AM
February 1, 2010
"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life."
William Arthur Ward
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12:09 AM