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“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: friendship

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“Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

tags: arts, ballroom-dancing, dancing, independence, intimacy, love, love-quotes, music

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“If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: action, activity, agility, attempt, ballgame, beginning, business, climb, do, enterprise, fact, facts, fall, fatigue, food-for-thought, free, free-gift, fruit, hard-work, hardwork, idle, idleness, independence, industry, inspiring, laziness, lazy, learning, life, mango, maxim, motion, motivation, on-top, opportunity, paradox, practice, readiness, ready, selfish, selfishness, start, time, tree, truth, up, waiting, waste, winner, wisdom, yield

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“I help those who can help themselves.”
― Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

tags: helping-others, independence, reliance

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“Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.”
― Thomas Davidson

tags: books, independence, self-reliance

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