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Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

But if something that was good morphs into something that's not good - and is not changing back - on...

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I’m new to money. I spent most of my existence without it. I know how to live frugally. If we were t...

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I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this jo...

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...the Cupcake Nation mentality - "Everyone's a winner!" - is so dangerous. When we try to protect t...

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I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up," I whispered."Don't give u...

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~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU a...

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He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-b...

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Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...

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The world is a better place when you smile.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

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Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice

With kisses your mouth taught memy lips came to know fire.

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

Settle your perfect hips here and the bow of wet arrowsloosens into the night the petals that form y...

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

It was. It will never be again. Remember.

But we must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And ...

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The battles may last for a long time, perhaps even years. There are powerful forces on both sides, a...

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You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bot...

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If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

Love, too, was just a question of time

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Tao of Emerson the Tao of Emerson

Quotation confesses inferiority.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonUncollected Writings

This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordinatio...

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the read...

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Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against th...

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Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible...

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I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in retu...

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All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bit...

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Sarah DessenJust Listen

Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools...

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I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.

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Stephen Jay GouldFull House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regr...

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He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accep...

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Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut...

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A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photograp...

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Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should e...

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I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab disput...

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He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. N...

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Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they ...

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It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

Il dolore aveva un suo modo di scomporre il tempo. Pensavo al minuto successivo, all'ora successiva....

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But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters ...

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from...

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In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines f...

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We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only ...

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Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who h...

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IF A THING IS WORTH HAVING, ITS WORTH CHEATING FOR.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought...

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Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your life.

Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.

Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as...

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So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that ...

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[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always...

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Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

որևէ քաղաք ճանաչելու ամենաճիշտ ձևերից մեկն էլ իմանալն է, թե ինչպե՞ս են այնտեղ աշխատում, ինչպե՞ս են ս...

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Dite all’Angelo che veglierà sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, si...

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I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, ...

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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

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Anna QuindlenImagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgott...

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Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had be...

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Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven time...

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Benvenuto CelliniThe Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned ...

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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast any...

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Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of ...

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Caitlín R. KiernanTwo Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

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I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

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Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

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...As if you have discovered a beach you have been visiting all your life is made not of sand but of...

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Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefriger...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we l...

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Le stelle in cieloNon conoscono l'iraBla, bla, bla, fine

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat...

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I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat...

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