Abigail Van Buren Quotes

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• If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Family, Success

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• The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Life, Friendship, Family

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• Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Hate, Yoga, Breathing

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• If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• You are what you are when nobody is looking.

  Abigail Van Buren

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  A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Museums, Religion, Church

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• Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Jobs, Maturity, Bears

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• A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Habit, Disappear

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• Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Disappointment, Women, Love Is

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• If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Life, Success, Business

  "Invest in Life Experiences" by Sean Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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• O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry.
  We thank thee for health and remember the sick.
  We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless.
  We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
  May these remembrances stir us to service,
  That thy gifts to us may be used for others.
  Amen.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Father, Sick, Remembrance

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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine

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• Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Self Esteem, Ocean, Erode

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• The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "A Small Encounter With Abigail Van Buren" by Lea Lane, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

  Abigail Van Buren

  Fighting, Fire, Ashes

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• The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Couple, Moving, Gay

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• It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone
  without getting a little on yourself

  Abigail Van Buren

  Littles, Dirt, Impossible

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• If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Adversity, Want

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• True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Funny, Education, Learning

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• Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Lonely

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• So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!

  Abigail Van Buren

  Yesterday, New Day, Today

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• If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Women, Ifs, Loses

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• The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Doubt, Certainty, Lack Of Faith

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