“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
– George Carlin
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Kleptomania – Ken Dodd
“I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.”
– Ken Dodd
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Blasphemies – George Bernard Shaw
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Love – David Whyte
“Love may be sanctified and ennobled by its commitment to the unconditional horizon of perfection, but what makes love real in the human world seems to be our moving, struggling conversation with that wanted horizon rather than any possibility of arrival. The hope for, or the declaration of a purely spiritual, unconditional love is more often a coded desire for immunity and safety, an attempt to forgo the trials of vulnerability, powerlessness and the exquisite pain to which we apprentice ourselves in a relationship, a marriage, in raising children, in a work we love and desire…The hope for unconditional love is the hope for a different life than the one we have been given. Love is the conversation between possible, searing disappointment and a profoundly imagined sense of arrival and fulfillment; how we shape that conversation is the touchstone of our ability to love in the real inhabited world. The true signature and perhaps even the miracle of human love is helplessness, and all the more miraculous because it is a helplessness which we wittingly or unwittingly choose; in our love of a child, a partner, a work, or a road we have to take against the odds.”
– David Whyte
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Number one – Dr.Suess
“You have to be odd to be number one”
– Dr.Suess
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To live – Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
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Revolution – John F. Kennedy
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”
– John F. Kennedy
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Hate – Herman Hesse
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
– Herman Hesse
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Hell of heaven – John Milton
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
– John Milton
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Leadership – Colin Powell
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
– Colin Powell
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Impostors – Alain De Botton
“The fear of being an Impostor gets resolved not when we become deeply sure of our abilities but when recognise that we’re not unusual in doubting ourselves. It’s not that we stop being impostors but that we realise that everyone is – and that our normal quota of self-doubt has really very little to do with the actual contribution that anyone makes.”
– Alain De Botton
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Chance – Unknown
“You only stand a chance if you take one.”
– Unknown
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Conviction – WB Yeats
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity”.
– WB Yeats
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Acceptance – George Orwell
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
– George Orwell
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Attitude – Chuck Swindoll
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.”
– Chuck Swindoll