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STATUS QUOtes — 20240313

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.” — Meryl Streep

“It’s quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled, enchanted.” — Mary Chase

“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.” — Jyrki Vainonen

“You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I’d get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we’d go steady for a few intense months, and then we’d have a really ugly breakup.” — Alissa Nutting

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240311

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“No one has it all figured out.” — Sahil Bloom

“Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one.” — Yukio Mishima

“The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way…” — David Foster Wallace

“Unlike most other people, I’m just an average person.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240309

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Admiration isn’t flattery. Admiration is showing earned respect.” — Isaac Mashman

“One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.” — Joseph Addison

“There’s nothing like the scent of your own home, is there? I don’t mean how it ordinarily smells, when you’re living in it- that smell you don’t even notice, because it’s always there, and so are you. I mean the peculiar perfume that greets you when you’ve been away, the delicate balance of wood and paint and plaster and upholstery, stripped of your own living essence: just the substance of the house and nothing else.” — Beatriz Williams

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” — Erma Bombeck

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240307

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.” — Harry Styles

“It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.” — Franklin Roosevelt

“Get a good dog; we have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.” — Paul Reiser

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240305

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.” — Italian proverb

“The best gift you are ever going to give someone: the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.” — Hannah Brencher

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.” — Charles Dudley Warner

“It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.” — Abraham Lincoln

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240303

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.” — Wolfgang Goethe

“Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.” — Richard Iannelli

“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.” — David Burns

“I’m a recovering perfectionist and an aspiring “good-enoughist.” — Brene Brown

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240301

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.” — James Fenimore Cooper

“Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.” — John le Carré

“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.” — Anne Lamott

“Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240228

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 


“Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.” — Eliot Porter

“Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn’t require much of anything at all.” — Frederick Buechner

“But a person is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.” — Diana Gabaldon

“In school they told me ‘Practice makes perfect.’ And then they told me ‘Nobody’s perfect,’ so then I stopped practicing.” — Steven Wright

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240226

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Amateurs have a goal. Professionals have a system.” — Andy Ayim

“Comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, then a master. And then it becomes a tamer, and with a hook and whip it makes puppets of your larger desires.” — Kahlil Gibran

“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.” — Thornton Wilder

“Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.” — Brigham Young

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240224

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“You can’t make a race horse of a pig, but you can make a very fast pig [ed].” — John Steinbeck, East of Eden” — John Steinbeck

“That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you — without you asking.” — Adriana Trigiani

“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Well, I don’t know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.” — J. P. Morgan

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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