The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

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Stella turned to us. "One of us is going to have to swim it. Any volunteers?"Jamie shook his head. "

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Free yourself, unwind, unravel. There’s no right or wrong way, just experience. Learning, understand

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You broke the chain, Luna. Of all his victims, you were the only one that ever walked away and he ha

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There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind i

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People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there's nothing much t

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He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes

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I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is

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Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the li

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Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.

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You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

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Never let your uniqueness be compromised

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When life asks you a question, you learn. When you ask a question from life, you cry.

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Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.

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I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

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If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in th

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Opportunities can become obstacles, same way obstacles can become opportunities; it all depends on h

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If you are number 2 or 3 and you are ok with that, then you are ready to be number one and everybody

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Think with your whole body.

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The pain of running relieves the pain of living.

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Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

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Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

Author: Kid Rock
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What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash

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Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it will be your time to shine soon.

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The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics A

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When God made man she was practicing.

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People need appreciation from more persons than they need love from one person.

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My heart is kerosene, my mind a match. I’m seconds away from igniting.

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There is no limitation in God

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Wisdom comes from not only in the understanding that often times we say no to things too easily and

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener wi

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Smiling is one of your most powerful non-verbal behaviors. People do read a book by its cover and th

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But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.

Author: Neil Gaiman
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Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony

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Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an

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Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome.

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When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on.

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While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that k

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I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for

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I think it's my memory of this period that makes me fantasise about living in the country. In realit

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I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's que

Author: Jerry Spinelli
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For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made...no one can do that.

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Maybe not here and now, but somewhere, someday.

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vi

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Talk about insanity. Being attracted to deVries was like a month saying, "Hey, let's go check out th

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You don't sound like a scientist; you sound like a poet." Rey smiled. "Can I be both?" "But you'd ra

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Knowledge and wisdom are both the signs of hunger and thirst of creativity.

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Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

Author: John Donne
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The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

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The body is a self-sufficient source of strength, happiness, healing power, love and resilience. The

Author: Linda Alfiori
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Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understandi

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A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person!

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Everything will be fine in the end. If it's not fine, it's not the end.

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When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the differenc

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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion

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It’s a new era at the Chateau.” Antoine said with a wry smile. “Never thought I’d have a wolf shifte

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Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?

Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the pur

Author: Thomas Keller
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Lies make for pathetic allies.

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Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, th

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To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

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It’s never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones.

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All we can infer (from the archaeological shards dug up in Berkshire, Devon and Yorkshire) is that t

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When the image is new, the world is new.

Author: Gaston Bachelard
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Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.

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And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy al

Author: John Steinbeck
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I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could giv

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I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effectiv

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The greatest success is how much impact was made

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Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

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The best chapters in your life story are written by love.

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Life, the universe and everything is a time illusion.Khalid Masood

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All husbands are alike but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

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You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we

Author: Paulo Coelho
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If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tu

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When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

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A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of

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Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one.

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Smile once a while; even if life tastes like bitter bile, just file out your teeth and cheeks and ta

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We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so

Author: Jack Kerouac
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Be loving to find the love.

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She is mad, and I am sane. To speak to her, even the first word, would be an acknowledgement and an

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Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.

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Well, the way you'd been, old ladyI could see the fear in your windowsUnder your furry crawling brow

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We are all one race. The only difference is the color of our skin, and that comes from how close you

Author: Bill Nye The Science Guy
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Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the pursuits, appearance, things we like, things we hate

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She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortab

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Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, a

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Respect is more valuable then the amount of times guys flirt with you.It's better to have one trustw

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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a

Author: Graham Greene
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Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red o

Author: David Mitchell
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The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing so

Author: J.R. Miller
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Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its norm

Author: John Stuart Mill
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Chase and I are in this for the long haul. I've stood before him and he's stood before me. And this

Author: S.R. Grey
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Unless there is a ‘clear evident experience of the True Self’ [spasthvedan], till then ‘Principle’ c

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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In order to fit our needs and wants, we are constantly adjusting and altering our behaviors and feel

Author: Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too l

Author: Hermann Hesse
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I collect my thoughts, I choose my words, Whenever I decide to talk to you.But...I feel like a dumb,

Author: Saad Salman