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 BURENThe purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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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.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
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Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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I can’t think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don’t live up to the expectations we have of them.
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It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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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!
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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