Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong 
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Don't complain, don't whine, and don't gossip.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I choose to be caring, compassionate and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;
it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
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