War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
By: Gustav Heinemann
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Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didnt - that I shouldnt grow dependent on anyone except myself. One of these days, I aint gonna be here, she kept hammering inside my head.
By: Ray Charles
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
By: E. E. Cummings
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I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didnt know.
By: Carrie Fisher
days always books company
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
By: John Burroughs
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
By: Mignon Mclaughlin
days affair become city
Id be lying if I didnt say there were days when I went back and said, I wish Id done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way. But its always in the motivation of getting better. Ive never once looked in the mirror and said, Oh boy, cant do this one.
By: Jeffrey R. Immelt
days always back better
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.
By: Harvey Mackay
days actual ahead changes
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
By: Henry Rollins
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If you dont fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
By: James Broughton
days fill life
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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