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“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
― Ann Landers

“Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ”
― Ann Landers

“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
― Ann Landers

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
― Ann Landers

“The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”
― Ann Landers

“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
― Ann Landers

“Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.”
― Ann Landers

“Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business”
― Ann Landers

“Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.”
― Ann Landers

“When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.”
― Ann Landers

“It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.”
― Ann Landers

“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.”
― Ann Landers

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”
― Ann Landers

“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
― Ann Landers

“Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down”
― Ann Landers

“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.”
― Ann Landers

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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― Ann Landers

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
― Ann Landers

“Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.”
― Ann Landers

“There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?”
― Ann Landers

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty thru good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present; it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. It is the day-in and out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else is there, it isn't enough..”
― Ann Landers

“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”
― Ann Landers

“Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Ann Landers

“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. ”
― Ann Landers

“Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go.”
― Ann Landers

“many people think that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. But there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go - and then to do it.”
― Ann Landers

“at every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. the trouble is, they are usually married to each other.”
― Ann Landers

“Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.”
― Ann Landers

“Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.”
― Ann Landers

“Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?”
― Ann Landers