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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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

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

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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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It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

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When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

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Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

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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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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

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Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

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