Tag: quotes
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Top 10 Quotes: #1 “Speak when you are…
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” ~Ambrose Bierce I have a little bit of a temper that as I get older it’s been easier to control, but I have made a lot of speeches that I have regretted. I have found that when I start…
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Top 10 Quotes: #2 “You gain strength…
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt I…
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Top 10 Quotes: #3 “You may be deceived if…
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” ~Frank Crane Over the past few years I have discovered what this really says. I had a friend that I trusted too much too quickly, allowed her to move in with me, and got…
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Top 10 Quotes: #4 “There is nothing like …
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~Nelson Mandela This makes me think of a lot of different situations from relationships to moving to family. I think that most people have had the situation of running into an old lover a few years after…
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Top 10 Quotes: #5 “A positive attitude…
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” ~Herm Albright Have you ever met that person that is always so happy that you sit back and wonder if they’ve ever gone through a bad day? If you have to be around…
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Top 10 Quotes: #6 “You are the embodiment of…
“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” ~Adlin Sinclair I think it’s funny that I choose this quote for today. I had set up a list of quotes prior to starting this, and it’s humorous…
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Top 10 Quotes: #7 – “To fear…
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” ~Bertrand Russell I enjoy this quote mainly because for a long time I did fear love. With the situation I grew up in, what I knew of love wasn’t even close to what it should be considered. …
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Top 10 Quotes: #8- “I find it fascinating…
“I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.” ~Jim Rohn I have always found the idea of vacations fascinating, but this kind of puts a new light on it. Because everytime in my life when…
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Top 10 Quotes: #9 – “The meeting of two personalities…
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~Carl Jung I like this quote not only because of the truth in it, but also because he leaves it so open ended. This could mean friends, family, lovers, it fits within any…
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Top 10 Quotes: #10 – “I’ve learned that people will forget…
I don’t know if many people do this or not, but I have the habit of leaving a list of quotes hanging around me at most times. Depending on what you’re going through in life, this can be a huge help to sit back and read that someone else has been there. When asked to…