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It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two -- or more -- answers to the same question, and all can be right.


Anne Wilson Schaef

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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
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JUSTINA CHEN Now she is ignoring me as first

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AS second


Not every word...
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1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hur...
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1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
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RYAN LOCHTE There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
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JANE AUSTEN Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Because I want to be remembered.
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ELEANOR H. PORTER If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.
SUZETTE VEARNON People know your tragedies and they treat you like
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GERMANY KENT Do what feel is right, and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live,
JACK BARAKAT Remember to afford yourself
the same generosity
you give to others.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be generous with your
time and energy. The harder
it is to give, the more
the other p...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Recognise how much
you have to give.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Although happiness is a state
of being, it usually still requires
some doing if it is to b...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Commit to being happy and
make the choices that will
support your commitment.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI

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Should never crave the rose.
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ANNE FRANK Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
ANNE BAXTER It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from...
ANNE BAXTER And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
ANNE RICE Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.
ANNE AUSTIN Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they ...
ANNE RAVER Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than a...
ANNE FRANK Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent t...
ANNE TUCKER Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.
ANNE HECHE Sex is a short cut to everything.
ANNE CUMMING Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
ANNE FRANK When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and o...
ANNE LAMOTT A hundred years from now? All new people.
ANNE LAMOTT Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to...
ANNE LAMOTT Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, t...
ANNE LAMOTT I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
ANNE LAMOTT You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all...
ANNE LAMOTT