"I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised."

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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."

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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."

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"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

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"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

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"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it."

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"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."

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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."

"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."

"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."

"Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me."

"When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness."

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"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

"Praise to the undeserving is severe satire."

"Beauty and folly are old companions."

"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."

"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it."

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."