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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.
Amy Dickinson
The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.
Amy Dickinson
Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.
Amy Dickinson
If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.
Amy Dickinson
Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.
Amy Dickinson
