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Jeff Rich

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

Alice Childress

“A gift – be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love – explains itself!… and if receivin’ it …

Sue Grafton

“It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.”

Charles De Secondat

“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”

Ellis Peters

“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”

Anna Pavlova

“To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

Gloria Pitzer

“About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.”

Norman Maclean

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks …

Sefer Hasidim

“If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.”

Katharine Butler Hathaway

“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you …

Swedish Proverb

“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.”

Elizabeth Goudge

“Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.”

Martha Grimes

“We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.”

Robert Fripp

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”

Jane O’Reilly

“Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and …

Lucille Clifton

“Things don’t fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words …

Mary O’Hara

“Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.”

Leona Helmsly

“I don’t hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.”

A. Sachs

“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”

William Bridges

“Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.”

Whitney Young

“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former …

Theodor Herzl

“ a marvelous machine…a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!”

Edward Sellner

“We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted… Each of us contains within… this inheritance of soul. We are links between the …

Wendy Wasserstein

“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There’s nothing wrong with being …

Mario Puzo

“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”

Aaron Rose

“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”

Jim Beggs

“What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”

Terry Lynn Taylor

“Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we …

Chris Messina

“Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because …

Babylonian Talmud

“Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient …

N. Sri Ram

“There is no wisdom without love.”

Edmund Spenser

“Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.”

Bessie A. Stanley

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”