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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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I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to ta...

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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owne...

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Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-...

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My dear,In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.In the midst of tears...

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

Renunciation is not rejecting the family but accepting the whole world as family. Renunciation is no...

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You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome ...

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much tr...

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I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it tak...

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Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said...

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Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing n...

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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks of everything that happens to you, knowing that ev...

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Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

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Brian TracyMaximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brillianc...

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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure ...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous an...

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Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's...

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The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority...

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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, a...

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Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no cont...

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We are gods in the chrysalis.

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

...I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of ma...

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The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picay...

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When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f...

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Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; he...

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…everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as i...

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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...

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Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear a...

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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerf...

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.

When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday ...

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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of thei...

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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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