I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone

recognized wiser than oneself.

- Marlene Dietrich

x1x Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of other, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. - Katherine Mansfield x2x Total absence of humor renders life impossible. x3x Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. Theyre what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm. - Cicely Tyson x4x Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us. x5x Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. - Lois McMaster Bujold x6x Holding onto anger, resentment and hurt only give you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden x7x Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to go beyond what you were. - Cherie Charter-Scott x8x Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest burden to bear. Mary Baker Eddy Colette

x9x Yesterday I dared to struggle, today I dare to win.

Frances Ridley Havergal

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Bernadette Devlin

Sometimes if you want to be a winner, you have to be willing to bear the scars from the fight. - Petra Salvaje x 11 x Patterning your life around others opinion is nothing more than slavery. - Lawana Blackwell x 12 x People tell you what to do, what to wear, who to like, how to behave. People put demands on you when all you really want is to be loved and accepted for who you are. - Malinda Fillingin x 13 x Lifes under no obligation to give us what we expect. x 14 x Whatever you fear most has no power it is your fear that has the power. - Oprah Winfrey x 15 x Never regret. It its good, its wonderful. If its bad, its experience. x 16 x Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zara Neale Hurtson Victoria Holt Margaret Mitchell

x 17 x You cant be brave if youve only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Taylor Moore x 18 x What you cant get out of, get into whole heartedly. x 19 x The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success, but significance and then, even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. - Oprah Winfrey x 20 x You never find yourself until you face the truth. x 21 x You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods x 22 x The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. x 23 x When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth and then we are angry at being undervalued. - Julia Cameron x 24 x There is only one way to defeat the enemy and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. Ann Landers Pearl Baily Mignon McLaughlin

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Saul Bellow

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. - Benazir Bhutto x 26 x Im not always right but Im never wrong. x 27 x It is always the best policy to speak the truth unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jermone K. Jermone x 28 x Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body. x 29 x The best word in order is prose. The best word in the best order is poetry. x 30 x Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. x 31 x Dont bother to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner x 32 x Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. Jacques Delille Coleridge Senera Garfield

x 33 x Everything you can imagine is real. x 34 x Never regret something that once made you smile. x 35 x

Kurt Vonnegut

Pablo Picasso

Amber Deckers

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. - Mary Pickford x 36 x We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe x 37 x Think hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. - Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah x 38 x Slow down & enjoy life. It is not only the scenery you miss by going too fast you also miss the sense of where you are going & why. - Eddie Cantor x 39 x It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide x 40 x

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