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Alice Hoffman quote: "Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns..."
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot. Alice Hoffman
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. Oswald Chambers
If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller) Henry Miller
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. George Eliot
Carl Sagan quote: "We can't help it. Life looks for life."
We can't help it. Life looks for life. Carl Sagan
Brian Tracy quote: "Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the..."
Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want. Brian Tracy
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected Thomas Paine
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue. Muhammad Yunus
Will Rogers quote: "It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can..."
It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute. Will Rogers
Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right. Thomas S. Monson
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name. Brian Aldiss
When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior. Dan Millman
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy? if not less of it? doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do. Terry McMillan
She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting. Margaret Atwood
the only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other. Milan Kundera

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