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- "If you don't fight for what you want, you'll never win" -?
- "Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention." -Sharon Salzberg
- "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." -Voltaire
- "The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." -Aesop
- "Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high." -Adrienne E. Gusoff
- "By courage I repel adversity." (Adversa Virtute Repello) -Anonymous
- "Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman
- "It is not enough to aim; you must hit." -Italian Proverb
- "I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it." -Wilson Mizner
- "Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively." -David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
- “We achieve inner health only through forgiveness...the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.” -Joshua Loth Liebman
- “Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” -Hannah Moore
- "We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies." -Voltaire
- "I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade." -The Holiday (film)
- "When I like people immensely i never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us." -The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- "The world is changed because you are made from ivory and gold. The curves of your lips re-write history." -The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- "Maybe I'm just one of those people so accustomed to being miserable that they use the material of any situation to fuel their misery." -Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
- "I didn't know how lonely I'd been until the loneliness stopped. Now when I looked at my flat it seemed to have been cleared of invisible wires criss-crossed in patterns of pain that had been there for years. I saw myself in days past, years past, stepping carefully and trying to keep my balance." -Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
- "I was waiting for the self inside me to come forward to the boundaries from which it had long ago withdrawn." -Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
- "I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." -Marilyn Monroe
- "Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away." -Mark Twain
- "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." -Apple Computer Inc.
- "Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
- "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it "The Present"." -Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair." -New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
- "When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end." -Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- "I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens." -Woody Allen
- "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." -Maya Angelou
- "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau
- "...we accept the love we think we deserve." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." -The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
- "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand
- "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." -Aristotle
- "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." -Happy Birthday To You by Dr. Suess
- "Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." -C.S. Lewis
- "People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mate's purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..." -Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
- "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much." -Mother Teresa
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