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"Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out." -- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran
"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed." -- Peter McWilliams
"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head." -- Andy Rooney
"I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips." -- Cynthia Ozick
"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances." -- Jay Leno
"We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own." -- Harold Bloom
"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance." -- W. S. Gilbert
"You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone." -- Real Live Preacher
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." -- Victoria Holt
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." -- Charles Kingsley
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." -- Cato the Elder
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