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“I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?” - Unknown |
“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go” - Mary Oliver |
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." – Oscar Wilde
I love this, even though it would seem to be at odds with being an editor. But the best editors are those who know when to let an author break convention. |
- Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. - - Buddha - |
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all" Emily Dickinson |
"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect." - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise." - John Keats |
"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared." - Charles de Montesquieu |
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~Mignon McLaughlin |
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~Ferdinand Foch |
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. --Michael Iapoce |
"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity." ~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
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"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here."
David Pelzer from his bestseller "A Man Named Dave" |
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out. -Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~Henry Ellis |
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. –-Paulo Freire |
"Procrastination is like a credit card, it is a lot of fun until you get the bill"
Christopher Parker |
"Existe un lenguaje que vamás allá de las palabras." ~ Paulo Coelho
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou |
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