A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in...
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John Grogan
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
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Stephen King
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
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Brian Tracy
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
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MingDao Deng
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
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Romain Rolland
More Quotes By Jacques Barzun
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.
