“Attack the problem, not the person.”
– Unknown
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Ships – Zora Neale Hurston
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
Q. What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney?
A. Claustrophobia.
Q. What do you get if you cross a bell with a skink?
A. Jingle smells
Q. What do reindeer hang on their Christmas trees?
A. Horn-aments!
Q. How do Snowmen get around?
A. They ride an Icicle.
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Blame – Chinese Proverb
“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”
– Chinese Proverb
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Gratitude – David Steindl-Rast
“Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.”
— David Steindl-Rast
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Contradicted – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Procrastination – Unknown
“Hard work sometimes pays off over time. Procrastination always pays off right now.”
– Unknown
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New way of thinking – Millard Fuller
“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.”
– Millard Fuller
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Patriotism – Sydney J. Harris
“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”
– Sydney J. Harris
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Happiness – Unknown
“Happiness is like a butterfy. The more you chase it, the faster it will flutter away. It’s when you ignore it, and focus on other things, that it will land in your hand on its own.”
– Unknown
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Know the truth – Blaise Pascal
‘We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart’
– Blaise Pascal
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
– Niccolò Machiavelli
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Deserved – Alain De Botton
“We should stop thinking we don’t deserve success: the universe does not distribute its gifts and its horrors with divinely accurate knowledge of the good and bad within each of us. Most of what we win is not quite deserved – and most of what we suffer isn’t either.”
– Alain De Botton
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The big questions – George Saunders
“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
– George Saunders
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Irritates – Carl Jung
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
– Carl Jung