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«Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.»
Author: Alice Walker | About: Happiness | Keywords: around, got, happy, Other People, wait
«It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing.»
«. . . it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.»
«Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.»
«Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first»
«In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.»
«If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.»
«It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.»
«A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes»
«A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.»