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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.


Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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MARIA SHARAPOVA I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
MARIA SHARAPOVA You control your own wins and losses.
MARIA SHARAPOVA I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessaril...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires...
MARIA SHARAPOVA When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
MARIA SHARAPOVA I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
MARIA SHARAPOVA I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around fiv...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
MARIA SHARAPOVA Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
MARIA SHARAPOVA An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and hee...
MARIA BELLO Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous c...
MARIA MONTESSORI The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of th...
MARIA MONTESSORI Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging...
MARIA MONK That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
MARIA MENOUNOS I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father -...
MARIA BAMFORD Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true c...
MARIA CANTWELL All I want to do is be at Hogwarts with you, eating turkey legs in the great hall while listening to...
MARIA ELENA I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a speci...
MARIA BAMFORD I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would...
MARIA SEMPLE I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll mani...
MARIA BAMFORD I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I s...
MARIA MONK We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothin...
MARIA MONTESSORI Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
MARIA EDGEWORTH I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no su...
MARIA BARTIROMO If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful....
MARIA MONK Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORI The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an eve...
MARIA MONTESSORI When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had ...
MARIA CALLAS Thank you for giving myself back to me, now I am free
MARIA KOSZLER If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
MARIA BROOKS If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within th...
MARIA MONTESSORI