My side of the story: August 2015

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31 August, 2015

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If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

~Elbert Hubbard

30 August, 2015

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There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

~Arthur Rubinstein

29 August, 2015

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Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.

~T.S. Eliot

28 August, 2015

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What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

~William Wordsworth
(This is part of a poem.)


27 August, 2015

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It doesn't matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was.

~Anne Sexton


26 August, 2015

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...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

~Dr. R. Joseph


25 August, 2015

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For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world, and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.

~Lucy Maud Montgomery


24 August, 2015

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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

23 August, 2015

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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

~Tom Stoppard


22 August, 2015

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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

~Vladimir Nabokov 

21 August, 2015

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Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

~Helen Keller


20 August, 2015

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I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or against.

~Malcolm X



19 August, 2015

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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will leave in torment if you don't trust enough.

~Frank Crane


18 August, 2015

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For trust not him that hath once broken faith.

~William Shakespeare


17 August, 2015

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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

~Benjamin Franklin

16 August, 2015

15 August, 2015

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We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

~Ayn Rand

14 August, 2015

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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response.

~Amos Bronson Alcott


13 August, 2015

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The past is our definition. we may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

~Wendell Berry

12 August, 2015

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To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

~Benjamin Franklin


11 August, 2015

10 August, 2015

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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

~P.J. O'Rourke

09 August, 2015

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

~Ben Okri


08 August, 2015

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

~Edgar Allan Poe


07 August, 2015

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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their true image.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

06 August, 2015

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It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.

~John Wooden


05 August, 2015

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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

~George Orwell


04 August, 2015

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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

~Daisy Bates

03 August, 2015

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

~George Bernard Shaw


02 August, 2015

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In youth we learn, in age we understand.


~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

01 August, 2015

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He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.


~Lao Tzu