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If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
Ann Landers
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Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.
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The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.
Ann Landers
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Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.
Ann Landers
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A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
Ann Landers
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Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, I was wrong. And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, I told you so.
Ann Landers
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The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.
Ann Landers
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Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.
Ann Landers
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It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.
Ann Landers
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Marriage is not a reform school.
Ann Landers
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All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.
Ann Landers
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Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.
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Are you better off with him or without him?
Ann Landers
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When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.
Ann Landers
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Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
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It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
Ann Landers
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What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
Ann Landers
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Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.
Ann Landers
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Ann Landers
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If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
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Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.
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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Ann Landers
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Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Ann Landers
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