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Sir Robert Hutchinson

“Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.”

Sheila Graham

“You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin …

Hannah Green

“Health is not simply the absence of sickness.”

Louise Bogan

“I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure …

Mother Jones

“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.”

Karen Sunde

“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”

Robert C. Pollock

“Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don’t betray them.”

Jerry Flint

“Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.”

The Mishnah

“Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.”

Kossuth

“The unspoken word never does harm.”

Gene McSweeney

“We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We …

John Barth

“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”

John Gruber

“You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience”

Vida D. Scudder

“It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.”

Russell R. McIntyre

“Sin bravely…We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into …

Faith Sullivan

“She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always …

John Mason Brown

“She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.”

Walter Pater

“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”

Paul Brown

“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.”

Joseph F. Newton

“A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.”

Margaret Peters

“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”

Jane E. Brody

“Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly …

John Lilly

“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.”

Marilyn C. Barrick

“For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.”

Marion Parker

“Be kind – Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle – everybody’s lonesome.”

Alison Headley

“In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it’s never too late.”

Queen Christina

“It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.”

Althea Gibson

“I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it’s half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the …

Michael Hanson

“To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action …

Bertha Calloway

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

“May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.”

Marcus Terentius Varro

“The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should …