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To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

 

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Often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is an adaptation of a poem published in 1905 by Bessie Stanley. No version of it has been found in Emerson's writings. For more information

 

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

 

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Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.



Sophia Lyon Fahs:

 

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Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.



William James:

 

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The deepest craving in human nature is the craving to be appreciated

 

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

 

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My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other. - "The Old Lady and the Bear"

 

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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

 

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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

 

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Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...

 

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Arguments are often like melodramas -- they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.



Gay Hendricks:

 

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Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.

 

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One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you

 

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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

 

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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher

 

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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

 

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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

 

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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

 

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.



Mary Pettibone Poole: