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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. James Allen

Thankful Thanks Duty More Returning Than Urgent

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

Alienation Borders Crossing Poetry Poets Writers Tension Between Beyond Narratives Always Been Exile Encounters Familiar Beginnings Wandering Literature Epic Theme Epic Poetry Stranger Novels Based Basic Assimilation

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia

Love Will Lost Give Given Fail Forever Eternity

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. Tony Robbins

Failure Only Results Thing

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you. Zig Ziglar

You Confidence Taking Moby Moby Dick Going After Sauce

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive. Brene Brown

Path Feeling Birthplace Worthiness Constructive Sharing Feel Vulnerability Vulnerable Connection

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis

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If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. Daniel Goleman

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Edward Abbey

Best Dangerous Corrupts Power Worst Attracts Always

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass

Great Battle Reflection Nation Lost Easily Moral Great Nation Observation Well Understood Won Requires Growth Appreciate Appreciated

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. Helen Keller

World Vision Sight Someone Most Person Pathetic Who

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. James Allen

Man Circumstances Make Him Reveal

As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy - and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress. Travis Bradberry

Time People Worth Stress Will Important Energy Different Kinds Strife Worst Complexity Unnecessary Kinds Take Never Toxic Learn Deal How Truly Lot Different Create Your Each

Spending time with negative people can be the fastest way to ruin a good mood. Their pessimistic outlooks and gloomy attitude can decrease our motivation and change the way we feel. But allowing a negative person to dictate your emotions gives them too much power in your life. Make a conscious effort to choose your attitude. Amy Morin

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Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. Anthony Bourdain

Best Food Me Together Meal Society Ways Intoxicating Fabric Charming Perfect Make Frequently Occur Context Were Lots Itself Very Hold Interesting Little Meals

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? Anthony Bourdain

You Somebody Breakfast Make Than Them Nicer Thing

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. Anthony Bourdain

Good You Business Humility Restaurant Restaurant Business Pounding Permanently Anything

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

Life Daily Respect Reality Become Our Adds Our Lives Simply Does Provides Literature Requires Describe Deserts Lives Daily Life Competence Necessary

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau

Happiness Faith Fruit Better Seed Smallest Than Largest

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