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ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
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You could move.’ —“Dear Abby” responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you’re supervised or not; finish a job once it’s started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale
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Why can’t reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there’s so little fish to catch?
Yann MartelYann Martel Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
Biz StoneBiz Stone I don’t have all the answers. I need your help, your guidance, and your leadership to tackle the challenges before us.
Bill RichardsonBill Richardson Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions…that get us to the right answer.
Bill BuxtonBill Buxton The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
Bill KellerBill Keller Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly Don’t saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
Billy BraggBilly Bragg You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.
Bill JohnsonBill Johnson