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Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of co...

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Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

An action done from duty has its moral worth, not in the purpose to be attained by it, but in the ma...

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Immanuel KantThe Moral Law: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pl...

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

But… all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid," I said...

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Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and --...

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I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

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This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he di...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

...and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath.

I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. Th...

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John WatersCrackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude ...

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Karen HorneyNeurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...

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That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was als...

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They walked away from the sea, Rolandsen in the lead. He kept to the edge of the road, in the snow, ...

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Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that state...

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I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of c...

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It’s just a thing. You deal with it." "As in, one damn thing after another?""Yes, very like.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how ...

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Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

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Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

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Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

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Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. D...

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...

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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also lear...

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The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you a...

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Michael Lewis (author)Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your ...

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... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but ne...

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You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more o...

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Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you...

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If I ever get to go to the moon, I’ll probably just stand on the moon and go ‘Hmmm, yeah…fair enough...

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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

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Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice

I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Bo...

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The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depe...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a po...

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I couldn't imagine myself doing it anymore. It was part of my life that had ended for me, and here w...

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Paul AusterIn the Country of Last Things

Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in eve...

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Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys...

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Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to ma...

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In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude tow...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than a...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply...

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Roald DahlThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

In those days," continued Ishvar, "it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A har...

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With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his unifo...

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We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not...

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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rath...

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Terry BrooksA Princess of Landover

The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal.Nothing on earth can ...

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So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes...

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There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who conc...

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Thomas SzaszThe Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The li...

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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what ...

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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic tha...

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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

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Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common hab...

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Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, o...

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The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of...

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Respected Teacher,My son will have to learn that all men are not just, all men are not true. But tea...

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