Satire is people as they are; ...

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
 Dawn Powell

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Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
 T. Harv Eker
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
 Dawn Powell