Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.

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Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.

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Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

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In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

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One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.

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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

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At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

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The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

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Being interested is more important than being interesting.

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