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“People in general are too eager to please, and their avoidance of trouble actually causes trouble.” Ellen Walkenstein
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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our window today.” Dale Carnegie
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I couldn’t not have gotten married for the first time and the second time. Yet they were stupid things to do, both of them. Doris Lessing
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I couldn’t not have gotten married for the first time and the second time. Yet they were stupid things to do, both of them. Doris Lessing
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“Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions. They pass no criticisms.” George Eliot
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“I have often forgiven those who bored me but never those who were bored by me.” Francois La Rouchefoucauld
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“No one knows but that death is the greatest of all good to man; yet men fear it as if they well knew that it is the greatest of evils. Is not this the more reprehensible ignorance, to think that one knows what one does not know? Socrates
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“Timidity is mistrust of self, and proceeds not from modesty but from conceit. A man is timid because he is afraid of not appearing to his best advantage.” Comtesse Diane
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“. . . a perceptive analysis made by anthropologist Ruth Benedict in 1946. That early, she perceived that the United States was ceasing to be a “guilt culture” (one in which conscience self-imposes control of wrongdoing) and was becoming instead a “shame culture” (one which relies on public humiliation and punishment to deter the wrongdoer). Dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment are civilized values we should cherish.” The Nation June 1, 1963
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“. . . being in love with someone falls short of loving him, and it is hard to pass from the mere fun of the first to the never very certain joy of the second.” Jerome D. Frank
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“Man’s fundamental problem is to achieve true ‘existence’ instead of letting his life be no more than just another accident.’ Rollo May
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