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"Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want." Bob Dylan

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"Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed." Voltaire

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“The most important decision you will ever make is to be in a good mood.” – Voltaire

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“The displacement of love, affection and attention onto a pair of shoes or a dress has built an entire industry,” she wrote. “Like all good defenses, however, they are best used in moderation and only when one understands a little of the motivations that lurk beneath the surface.” Betty Halbreich

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“The secret to life is tour management.”

- Scott Simon

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“I’m very pleased to think that there are people with whom I agree on some issues and not others. I don’t want a world in which we all agree. I want a world in which people feel that they have the standing and confidence to feel that they can disagree. I’m interested in why people think as they do.”

— Mary Beard

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“In this time of anxiety and searching, one should write something, shape something. Whatever it might be, it could lead to proposing some kind of sense and order. Any situation can become a starting point. Knowledge of life doesn’t have a specific beginning and an end. It is like the earth: any point on it can become the beginning or the middle.” –Anna Kamieńska

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"When I found acting, or when acting found me, it was a liberation. It was a stepping stone into another life, away from a life that I had, and acting was something I was good at, something which was appreciated. That was a great satisfaction in my life."

Pierce Brosnan

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"At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous. This is in fact one of the most valuable things you can do with your time and with your life."

Tyler Cowen

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“So much can be accomplished in one focused hour, especially when that hour is part of a routine, a sacred rhythm that becomes part of your daily life.” — Dani Shapiro

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“People think in old age you cannot do anything anymore,” he said in an interview. “I think it’s the opposite. I think I’m more majestic, more in control, more beautiful to look at today at 74 than I was at 18.” Philippe Petit

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"Autumn can feel like a time of greys and browns once the initial blaze is over, but it has its own softer, quieter colour that rewards those who search it out. Even in the misty woods there is yellow clinging to branches, green moss lining every rock and bright orange underfoot." @peaklass1 on X

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"Alcohol is cool but have you ever had someone actually care about you" @DougieHamilto11

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“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone." Vita Sackville-West

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"Be a storehouse of happy memories." Gretchen Rubin

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"You must be able to create a life that lights you up whether or not you have a lover, a great career, a lot of money, a great house, a healthy child, or a hit song…Joy is an unconditional experience that is not dependent upon circumstances." -Katherine Woodward Thomas

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"I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain, and I am quite free." Georgia O'Keeffe