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• There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best —Doris Lessing
• You can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. —Barack Obama
• There’s a certain kind of pain that can numb you. There’s a type of freedom that can tie you down. Sometimes the unexplained can define you. And sometimes the silence is the only sound. In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. —Charlie Brown
• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong. —The Truth About Forever
• We were never meant to be this damn broken, words were never meant to be this half spoken.
• I wish I was where I was when I was wishing I was here.
• A que from nature: Run outside during a thunderstorm. That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration, that's what unlonely is like.
• The reason people find it so hard to be happy, is that they always see the past better than it was.
• And the gears will spin, and the sinners sin but at least we'll give 'em hell and the rightious few will spit on you, so bid them all farewell.
• We talk like we know what’s going on but we don’t. We don’t know anything, we’re young and we’re gonna screw up a lot. We’re gonna keep changing our minds, and sometimes our hearts. And through all of that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness. —Dawson’s Creek
• The best things in life can never be kept. Instead, they must be given away. A smile, a kiss, and love.
• There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• When did it get like this? Always going from day to the next, just floating. Passion is forced. Where is that fire that burned so long ago? I miss its warmth.
• Perhaps in the future the exception will be the rule; the abnormal the norm. All the facts will fit because the system has become so capacious. Our minds will become so flexible that nothing will daunt us: comet in the daytime, dialogues with the dead, snowflakes the size of wagon wheels. —Ann Arensberg
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. —A. Gide
• It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens. —Pema Chodron
• Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. —M. McLaughlin
• If you felt it, then it was true. Getting hurt doesn't always mean you suffered, it also means you loved sincerely. Don't frown because it's over... smile because it happened.
• After awhile you learn the difference between holding a hand and falling in love. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made, and goodbyes really are forever.
• We've got our deepest hopes tattooed on our eyelids, so when we sleep we speak fireworks.
• Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Sex and the City
• Life comes without guarantees, except that smiling will brighten your face. Laughing will enhance your eyes, and falling in love will change your life.
• You never stop loving the people who leave, you just stop needing them like you used to.
• orget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. -Dr. Robert Anthony
• Too many people miss the silver lining because they are expecting gold.
• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. —Iris Murdoch
• Perhaps we give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think of us in return.
• Love is worth fighting for, but sometimes you can’t be the only one fighting. At times, people need to fight for you.
• Time changes everything. That’s what people say. It’s not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves them exactly as they were.
• I think it's a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. -Vladimir Nabokov
• Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. —Jodi Picoult
• It only takes a little bit of effort to open up your eyes and see that this life is so fucking short. But still you let each day of it get the best of you, instead of the other way around. Someone has killed the child in you, and now this life has got you beat.
• Anyone who can touch you, can hurt you or heal you. Anyone who can reach you, can love you or leave you.
 —Natasha Bedingfield
• We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow someone perfect is searching for us.
• It feels like I'm falling in love when I'm falling to the bathroom floor
• Someday, someone is going to walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.
• Love fails, only when we fail to love. —J. Franklin
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. —Oscar Wilde
• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. —E.B. White
• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. —Elie Wiesel
• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. —Martin Luther King Jr.
• Life is the sum of all your choices. —Albert Camus
• Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. —Vanilla Sky
• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. —Aristotle
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. —Douglas Adams