Category: writer
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To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
Joyce Meyer
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is ‘faith.’
Zadie Smith
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It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens
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You cannot catch anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it.
Rhonda Byrne
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
Deepak Chopra
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire
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In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‘different’: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.
Brene Brown