“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice...”
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
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“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”
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“My soul will find yours.”
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share o...”
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“Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.”
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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustrat...”
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“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”
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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are rig...”
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”
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“She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comm...”
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
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“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
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“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
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“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Lie...”
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“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre a...”
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“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
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“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does...”
“Romance for me is Meeting yeu after a Long time After all those nighs i have spend longing to hold yeu thinking about yeu And finally being next to yeu when i still have to hold back Because...”
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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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“Love was the most savage monster of all.”
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acc...”
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“Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
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“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
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“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
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“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
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“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people t...”
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“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has fi...”
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“To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite o...”
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“Do not ask me How much i love yeu? I will not be able to answer yeu that in words”
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“Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first...”
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
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