Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
~quotes on Wise Words by Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982 If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
~sayings on Gratitude by John Dryden Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
~quotations on Happiness by Margaret Young I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.
~famous friendship quotes by C. Hoppe When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.
~quote about Speaking by Author Unknown What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~quotes on People by Susan Sontag By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
~sayings on Yoga by Phillip Moffitt Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
~quotations on Golf by Ken Venturi, on Art Rosenbaum There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.
~famous friendship quotes by Mignon McLaughlin If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
~saying about friendship by Horace G. Hutchinson When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
~quote about Sleep by From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
~quotes on Psychology by Dr. Douglas Busch Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.
~sayings on Running by Sam Mussabini Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
~quotations on Habits by William James, The Principles of Psychology Chance takers are accident makers.
~famous friendship quotes by Author Unknown Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
~saying about friendship by Anaïs Nin Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
~quote about Integrity by Pablo Casals A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
~quotes on Poetry by E.B. White We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
~sayings on Advice by Author Unknown If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
~quotations on Civilization by Stanley Garn Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
~famous friendship quotes by Art Buchwald I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
~saying about friendship by Josh Billings The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
~quote about Kindness by Malcolm S. Forbes Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.
~quotes on Health by Author Unknown The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.
~sayings on Prosperity by Irving Babbitt How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
~quotations on Integrity by Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams A lot of guys think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent she is. I don't think it works like that. I think it's the opposite. I think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent the men become.
~famous friendship quotes by Anita Wise We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
~saying about friendship by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
~quote about American football by Dan Birdwell The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
~quotes on Future by Paul Valery I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon - a streak of lean and a streak of fat.
~sayings on Dieting by Texas Guinan The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.
~quotations on Driving by Edward Abbey To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
~famous friendship quotes by Mark Twain, attributed All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
~saying about friendship by Richard Avedon Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
~quote about Censorship by Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935 Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name
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