"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic" (Lisa Alther)
"Confusion is always the most honest response." (Mary Indik)
"My open-mindedness is driving me insane!" (Young girl)
"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain." (author unknown)
"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, I don't know." (William Somerset Maugham)
"I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking" (Gertrude Berg, Molly and Me)
"It is astonishing how much more anxious people are interested in lengthening life than improving it." (Charles C. Colton)
"Nobody knows the troubles I've known, and most of them never happened" (Mark Twain)
"It is not work that kills men; it is worry." (Henry Ward Beecher)
"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." (William James)
"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier." (Charles Kettering)
"An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to." (Lawrence J. Peter.)
"Our life is what our thoughts make it." (Marcus Aurelius)
"As ye think, so shall ye be." (Jesus Christ)
"What we think, we become." (Buddha)
"We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and delusion, just as effectively as bombs." (Kenneth Clark)
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." (Norman Vincent Peale)
"Your life is what your thoughts make of it." (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." (Ernest Holmes)l
"Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty." (Napoleon Hill)
"Things are only worth what you make them worth." (Moliere)
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." (William James)
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one." (Philip Sidney)
"Everyone constructs their own bed of nails." (D. Sutten)
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." (Dennis P. Kimbro)
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone." (Gabrielle Chanel)
"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships." (C. S. Lewis)
"The security blanket of conformity is warm and comfortable - just so it doesn't cover our heads and smother us." (Herbert Holt)
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be who we pretend to be." (Socrates)
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." (George Eliot)
"No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings." (William Blake)
BirthQuake: The Journey to Wholeness
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