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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. J. Donald Walters

Happiness Friendship Understanding Own Way More Mere True Principles Than Precious Getting Situations Being Where Stake Your Things

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. J. K. Rowling

People World Defiance Meet Kind Very Often Damaged

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. James Altucher

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I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships. Jane Green

Hardships Believe Our Backgrounds Make Interesting Flaws Us

Great people have great values and great ethics. Jeffrey Gitomer

Great People Ethics Values Great People

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West

Work Future History Past Imagination Almost Much Really

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom. John Burroughs

Great Before Lamp Tree Window Lights Days Like Gloom October Up Cloudy Room Your Dispel Even Helps Maple Presence

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times. John Gerzema

Work Kindness Good Honesty Humor Stewardship Times Transparency Businesses Even

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. John Henrik Clarke

You People Oppression First Supposed Oppressed Hold Them Convince

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe. John Henrik Clarke

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When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness. Jonathan Maberry

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life. Joyce Meyer

Life You Change Words Powerful Your

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid. Joyce Meyer

You Bible Fear Say Says Scared Never Feel Like Supposed Going Afraid Mean Should Means Forward Keep Keep Going

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can't walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem. Joyce Meyer

God You Problem Ahead Walk Important Become Own Our Our Lives Tells Never He Material Material Things Get Hold Anything Them Us Should Away Lives Things

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. Judith Viorst

During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work. Kate Klise

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. Kurt Vonnegut

Me Sometimes Look Make Learn Wonder Stop Anything

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. Kurt Vonnegut

Best Good Birthday Communism People Everybody Astrology Possibilities Vivid About Almost Make Because Full Palm

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Kurt Vonnegut

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura Ingalls Wilder

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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. Leo Buscaglia

Nature Little Things Wind Down Wildly Run Enthusiastic About Still Leaves Get Against Little Skip Play Street Things

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