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.
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Margot Fonteyn
Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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Samuel Butler
Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it?
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Kevin Costner
When a man is gloomy everything seems to go wrong when he is cheerful everything seems right!
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Bible
More Quotes By Laurence Sterne
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains, --then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other:...
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the...
We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them
