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“I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.”
“The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpet...”
“That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of acids that permeated the corridor and came to ...”
“They walked away from the sea, Rolandsen in the lead. He kept to the edge of the road, in the snow, to leave room for the others. He was wearing light, fashionable shoes, but seemed unperturbed; he...”
“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”
“For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't good enough, thank you. For every person who laughed and told me that I was wasting my time going t...”
“I’m thinking, handsome, it might be good to end the biker lesson now seeing as this particular one might piss me off.” “Not surprised, babe, but we had a good run.” “Pardon?” “Took you to work, bro...”
“Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your bike in the park. Dream about my perfect, golden body. Take your vitamins....”
“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one...”
“It’s just a thing. You deal with it." "As in, one damn thing after another?""Yes, very like.”
“Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.”
“Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.”
“One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged”
“Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged”
“It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged”
“It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.”
“Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just been dredged from the bottom of a lake. Her last painting was of you, slouching against the ...”
“Attitude is 100% under your control – (yours to choose, use or lose, as they say)Happiness, fulfillment and satisfaction in a life ALWAYS and ONLY come as a consequence of some other activity. That...”
“The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temp...”
“We can’t always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.”
