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He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
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Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
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Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Take the initiative - don't wait for life to come to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
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The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance upon thee.
- Epictetus
Take Action - Now.
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Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Set Goals - Take Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in what you love, continue to do it,
and it will take you where you need to go.
- Natalie Goldberg
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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