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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 19, 2008
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
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Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
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Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
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What Wouldn't Jesus Do?
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