Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
#quotes #teri-hatcher #patience

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
#quotes #dash-mihok #tourette-s #control

It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
#quotes #jacqueline-novogratz #time #life #earth

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
#quotes #john-greenleaf-whittier #people

They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
#quotes #stephen-king #ending #beginning

You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
#quotes #suze-orman #self #helping

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs #change

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
#proverbs #laughing

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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