When you invite trouble, it's ...

When you invite trouble, it\'s usually quick to accept.
When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.
 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.
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Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.
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