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I am what I am, and there's much about me that won't be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I'm sorry for that.
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What is grief, if not love persevering?

Grief is just love with no place to go.
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"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein

"Some people come in your life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons." - Mother Teresa

"Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." - Bruce Lee
" HAPPINESS is finding PEACE within yourself! " :D
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
- Cathy in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one...
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Ssinghal wrote:
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
- Cathy in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Oh Wuthering Heights. I love that book so so much. I'm about due for a re-read.

Mine:
No one in the world every gets what they want and that is beautiful.
- Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The massive characters are seared with scars."- Khalil Gibran

-- 12 Jul 2017, 12:02 --

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

-- 12 Jul 2017, 12:03 --

"Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to." - Unknown
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Caroline Bingley, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." — Madeline L'Engle
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“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch with your hand that dancing reflection. And the task lasted for years.” - Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier

"He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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1-. "There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for".– J.R.R. Tolkien,The Two Towers.
2-. "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not".– André Gide,Autumn Leaves.
3-."Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy".– Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle.
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
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This is my most favorite quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"Do not go where the path may lead, instead go therefore where there is no path and leave a trail."
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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
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Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. -Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) George R.R. Martin
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. -Albus Dumbledore
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. - Eric Hoffer,

"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer" The New York Times Magazine (April 25, 1971), p. 62.
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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One must not allow the clock and the calender to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.

The monk who sold his Ferrari by R.Sharma

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Live out your life in such a way that even the undertaker cries at your funeral.

Family Wisdom by Robin Sharma

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Live out your life in such a way that even the undertaker cries at your funeral.

Family wisdom by robin sharma

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The best ideas will not work unless you work the ideas.

You can win by Shiv Khera
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