“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”
Bob Newhart quotes
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated." – Erma Bombeck
“Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done …
"Eating meat in a world that obtains its meat the way this one does is not okay with God." – Ceekay Smith
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"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands. – Pirsig, …
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -Franklin, Benjamin
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -Franklin, Benjamin
Bierce, Ambrose
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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. -Confucius
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. -Confucius
When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful. -Art Fettig
When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful. -Art Fettig
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. -Alcott, Amos Bronson
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. -Alcott, Amos Bronson