Category: writer
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
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Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.
John C. Maxwell
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
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One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf
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Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
Joyce Meyer
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Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
Aeschylus
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Charles Dickens
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People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships – not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.
Deepak Chopra