A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.

Author: Karen Salmansohn

Author: Karen Salmansohn

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First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Author: Ray Bradbury
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A simple word of greeting, an offer of a cup of coffee on me, a smile and a hug will all go a long w

Author: Katherine J. Walden
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Author: Saul Bellow
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in

Author: Dan Stevens
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It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something bette

Author: Patricia C. Wrede
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important

Author: Victoria Justice
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Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glo

Author: Steven Pinker
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time

Author: Mahmoud Abbas
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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Author: Heinrich Heine
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We fell to wrestling again. We rolled all over the floor, in each other's arms, like two huge helple

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Author: W. C. Fields
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This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.

Author: Richard Glover
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it

Author: Bangambiki Habyarimana
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There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all the

Author: William Shakespeare
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What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

Author: C.L.R. James
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, s

Author: William Shakespeare
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Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory’s storage center with useful da

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one bra

Author: Haruki Murakami
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A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at

Author: Linda Seger
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Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don’t want to be a slave to exter

Author: Janvier Chouteu-Chando
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by re

Author: Thomas Merton
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Whatever crimes this man had committed, they weren't as egregious as his inflated self-image.

Author: Katherine McIntyre
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The only thing that gets you through is the firm, unbreakable belief that you have something special

Author: Robin Thicke
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Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously

Author: Luigi Pirandello
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A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that y

Author: Ellie Wade
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Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Author: Frank Gaines
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The fine-structure constant is ubiquitous throughout physics. I’ve already noted its connection to t

Author: Gerald Gabrielse
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I need to backtrack. I need to reboot.Do not save changes

Author: Sophie Kinsella
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It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

Author: Angela Phillips
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the

Author: Eckhart Tolle
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. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank,

Author: C.S. Lewis
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My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, wh

Author: Tagg Romney
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The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.

Author: Frank Herbert
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So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions t

Author: Billy Joel
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Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free

Author: Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was

Author: Julie Schumacher
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It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rai

Author: Terry Pratchett
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Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is large

Author: Friedrich A. Hayek
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The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated w

Author: William Ryan
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The power of positive thoughts is divine. Maintain a positive thoughts to create the life you want.

Author: Unknown
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I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, wher

Author: Isabel Allende
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We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

Author: Haruki Murakami
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Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and wor

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Author: Paul Ryan
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Your attitudes are literally seeds for the growing of your future self.

Author: Bryant McGill
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What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way

Author: Chuck Grassley
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o

Author: J. D. Salinger
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I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should n

Author: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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The failure of the citizens to pray for the country, will lead to its downfall.

Author: Unknown
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When your heart is broken, it’s easier to follow rules

Author: Betsy Cornwell
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I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be

Author: Chris Kurtz
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She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike a

Author: Rebecca Makkai
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We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be deb

Author: Daphne Guinness
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No mere mortal can do what the Son of man did

Author: Unknown
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I try to smile at her, but I can't extend my flexibility training to my mouth, it just won't move.

Author: Steph Campbell
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Coincidences are the explanations of lazy and cowardly people for what they don't understand.

Author: Patricia Nedelea
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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in oursel

Author: Thomas Hardy
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Success is a transformation not a final destination.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a per

Author: John Geddes
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I was always a good girl. I was a straight-A student, top of my class. I did as I was told. I was po

Author: Roxane Gay
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I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But the

Author: Rene Russo
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelm

Author: G. Willow Wilson
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God speaks repeatedly and in many different ways

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a

Author: Walter Cronkite
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The bond (of marriage) became the bondage itself

Author: Nilesh Rathod
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Don't fear to take a daring action. It is truest act to your destiny.

Author: Unknown
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There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

Author: Napoléon Bonaparte
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I have strange feeling, but I should continue with the fight I never should give up!

Author: Deyth Banger
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Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

Author: Stella Adler
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I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we

Author: William Hague
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In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Author: Stephen Hawking
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A good woman is a pleasured treasure.

Author: Habeeb Akande
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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Author: Tom Stoppard
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[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Author: Betsy Lerner
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Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must in

Author: Bertrand Russell
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Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

Author: Katherine Paterson
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Big things often have small beginnings.

Author: Sravani Saha Nakhro
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We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we have

Author: Fernando Pessoa
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Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.(Waterstones Trafalgar Squar

Author: Waterstones
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The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap u

Author: Virginia Woolf
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Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heav

Author: Frances Ridley Havergal
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One of the greatest ever statement that can keep you at peace with others is that "I am right, but I

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at t

Author: Anaïs Nin
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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you becom

Author: Pablo Picasso
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If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more

Author: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call charact

Author: Ani DiFranco
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The family was serious about education; after dinner, Fred was known to issue volumes of the Encyclo

Author: Mungo MacCallum
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Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and

Author: Margaret Atwood
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Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touc

Author: Jeanette Winterson
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Your level of vibration runs parallel with your feelings, meaning you are in control of your life an

Author: Stephen Richards
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Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul,

Author: Susan Fletcher
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't

Author: Candice Olson
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I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

Author: Marian Keyes
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Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be c

Author: Kavita Kané
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The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that tur

Author: Robert Ludlum
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Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What crea

Author: John Lasseter