“ Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. ”
- Kathleen Norris- Copy
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“ The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ”
- Allan K. Chalmers- Copy
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“ Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. ”
- Helen Nielsen- Copy
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“ The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. ”
- Margaret Fontey- Copy
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“ Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much nearer the truth. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The most essential factor is persistence — the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ”
- James Whitcomb Riley- Copy
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“ Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
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“ Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
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“ Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. ”
- Charles Sawyer- Copy
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“ The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. ”
- Nadia Boulanger- Copy
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“ Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. ”
- Martina Navratilova- Copy
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“ Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ”
- Cardinal De Richelieu- Copy
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“ The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''. ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
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“ The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. ”
- Nicholas Murray Butler- Copy
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“ Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
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“ Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life. ”
- Julia Child- Copy
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“ The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ”
- Carl Edward Sagan- Copy
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“ Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace. ”
- Yitzhak Rabin- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. ”
- Agnetha Faltskog- Copy
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