awesome quotes inspirational

  1.     Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
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  3.     “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I m~ake 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.”
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  5.     “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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  7.     “Two things are infinite: the ~universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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  9.     “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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  11.     “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
  12.     Love like you'~ll never be hurt,
  13.     Sing like there's obody listening,
  14.     And live like it's heaven on earth.”
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  16.     “So many books, so little time.”
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  18.     “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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  20.     “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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  22.     “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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  24.     “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
  25.     ― Mahatma Gandhi
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  27.     “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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  29.     “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

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  32.     “Don’t walk in front of me…~ I may not follow
  33.     Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
  34.     Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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  36.     “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
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  38.     “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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  40.     “A friend is someone ho k~nows all about you and still loves you.”
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  42.     “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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  44.     “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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  46.     “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
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  48.     “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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  50.     “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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  52.     “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
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  54.     “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
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  56.     “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes~. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And th~ey have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disag~ree 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.”
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  58.     Ralph Waldo Emerson
  59.     “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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  61.     “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you~ appreciate them when they're right, yo~u believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no on but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
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  63.     “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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  65.     “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
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  67.     “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your xcitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where bef~ore it was infrequent ~or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. I~n their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will r~emain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”
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  69.     “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
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  71.     “All that is gold does not glitter,
  72.     Not all those who wander are lost;
  73.     The old that is strong does not wither,
  74.     Deep roots are n~ot reached y the frost.
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  76.     From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
  77.     A light from the shadows shall spring;
  78.     Renewed shall be b~lade that was broken,
  79.     The crownless again shall be king.”
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  81.     “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
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  83.     “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
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  85.     “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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  87.     John Green
  88.     “As he read, I fell in love the way you~ fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
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  90.     “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
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  92.     “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
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  94.     “Good friends, good books, and a leepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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  96.     “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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  98.     “The fool doth think he is wise, b~ut the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
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  100.     “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
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  102.     “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
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  104.     “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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  106.     “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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  108.     “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
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  110.     “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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  112.     “Fairy tales are more than true: not ecause they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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  114.     “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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  116.     “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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  118.     “I may not have gone where I int~ended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
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  120.     “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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  122.     “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
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  124.     “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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  126.     “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
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  128.     “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way becaus~e I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
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  130.     “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
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  132.     “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and i means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
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  134.     “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
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  136.     People are illogical, unreasona~ble, and self-centered.
  137.     Love them anyway.
  138.     If you do good, people will a~ccuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
  139.     Do good anyway.
  140.     If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
  141.     Succeed anyway.
  142.     The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
  143.     Do good anyway.
  144.     Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
  145.     Be honest and frank anyway.
  146.     The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
  147.     Think big anyway.
  148.     People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
  149.     Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
  150.     What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
  151.     Build anyway.
  152.     People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
  153.     Help people anyway.
  154.     Give the world the best you have and ~you'll get kicked in the teeth.
  155.     Give the world the best you have anyway.”
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  157.     “That which does not kill us makes u stronger.”
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  159.     “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. A~nd you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
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  161.     “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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  163.     “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
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  165.     “This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like ~it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mea~n you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always~ believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sw~eetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
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  167.     “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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  169.     “Being deeply loved by someone ives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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  171.     “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
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  173.     “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
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  175.     “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
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  177.     “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
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  179.     “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
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  181.     “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
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  183.     “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
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  185.     “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
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  187.     “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
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  189.     “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
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  191.     “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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  193.     “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
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  195.     “You love me. Real or not real?"
  196.     I tell him, "Real.”
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  198.     “We read to know we're not alone.”
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  200.     “You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She~'s not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most~ you can. She may no~t be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
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  202.     “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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  204.     “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
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  206.     “Beauty is in the eye of the b~eholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
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  208.     Everything you can imagine is real.”
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  210.     “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
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  212.     “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
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  214.     “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the sh~attered orld will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
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  216.     “Never trust anyone who~ has not brought a book with them.”
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  218.     “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
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  220.     “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
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  222.     “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
  223.     Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
  224.     ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
  225.     "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
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  227.     “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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  229.     “I am nothing special~, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monume~nts dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
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  231.     “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
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  233.     “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
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  235.     “I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
  236.     "Augustus," I said.
  237.     "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the~ business of denying myself the simp~le pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I now the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
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  239.     “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
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  242.     “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
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  244.     “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
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  246.     “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
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  248.     “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
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  250.     “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
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  252.     “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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  254.     “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelli~gent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoug~htful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
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  256.     “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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  258.     “Sometimes people are beautiful.
  259.     Not in looks.
  260.     Not in what they say.
  261.     Just in what they are.”
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  263.     “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
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  265.     “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
  266.     And therefore is winged Cupid ainted blind.”
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  268.     “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
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  270.     “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
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  272.     “If one cannot enjoy reading a~ book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
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  274.     “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
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  276.     The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
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  278.     “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
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  280.     “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
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  282.     “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
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  284.     “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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  286.     “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
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  288.     “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
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  290.     “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 shos you eve~rything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
  291.     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 la~yer of yourself to you, and then leave.
  292.     A soul mates 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...”
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  294.     “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
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  296.     “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
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  298.     “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
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  300.     “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
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  302.     “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
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  304.     “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
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  306.     “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
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  308.     “The real lover is the man who canthrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
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  310.     “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
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  312.     “Love never dies a natura~l death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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  314.     “The story so far:
  315.     In the beginning the Universe was created.
  316.     This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
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  318.     “Who are you to judge the life I live?
  319.     I know I'm not perfect
  320.     -and I don~'t live to be-
  321.     but before you start pointing fingers...
  322.     make sure you hands are clean!”
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  324.     “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
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  326.     “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
  327.     "Pooh!" he whispered.
  328.     "Yes, Piglet?"
  329.     "Nothing," said Piglet, taking ~ooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
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  331.     “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
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  333.     “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
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  335.     “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
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  337.     “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
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  339.     “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
  340.     Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
  341.     Who has filled~ his niche and accomplished his task;
  342.     Who has never lacked appr~eciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
  343.     Who has left the world better than he found it,
  344.     Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
  345.     Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
  346.     Whose life was an inspiration;
  347.     Whose memory a benediction.”
  348.     ― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book =====================================
  349.     “Some people never go crazy. What t~ruly horrible lives they must lead.”
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  351.     “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
  352.     =====================================
  353.     Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
  354.     =====================================
  355.     “So, this is my life. And I want you t~ know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
  356.     =====================================
  357.     “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
  358.     =====================================
  359.     “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
  360.     =====================================
  361.     “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
  362.     =====================================
  363.     “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
  364.     =====================================
  365.     “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
  366.     =====================================
  367.     “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
  368.     =====================================
  369.     “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
  370.     =====================================
  371.     “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
  372.     =====================================
  373.     “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
  374.     =====================================
  375.     “The reason I talk to myself is~ ecause I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
  376.     =====================================
  377.     “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
  378.     =====================================
  379.     “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
  380.     =====================================
  381.     “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sur~e 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.”
  382.     =====================================
  383.     “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
  384.     =====================================
  385.     “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk ~away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
  386.     =====================================
  387.     “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
  388.     =====================================
  389.     “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
  390.     =====================================
  391.     “Not all those who wander are lost.”
  392.     =====================================
  393.     “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
  394.     =====================================
  395.     Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
  396.     Find a girl who reads. You’ll know hat she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that~ weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
  397.     She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer ~is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
  398.     Buy her another cup of coffee.
  399.     Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
  400.     It’s easy to date a girl wh~o reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
  401.     She has to give it a shot somehow.
  402.     Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
  403.     Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again an~d again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
  404.     Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
  405.     If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and~ hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
  406.     You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
  407.     You will smile so hard you will wonder why y~our heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story f your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to~ the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
  408.     Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginabl~e. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
  409.     Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
  410.     =====================================
  411.     “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
  412.     =====================================
  413.     “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
  414.     =====================================
  415.     “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
  416.     =====================================
  417.     “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt 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.”
  418.     =====================================
  419.     “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
  420.     =====================================
  421.     “The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
  422.     =====================================
  423.     “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
  424.     =====================================
  425.     “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and s her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
  426.     "After all this time?"
  427.     "Always," said Snape.”
  428.     =====================================
  429.     It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
  430.     =====================================
  431.     “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
  432.     =====================================
  433.     “There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are~ bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Au~gustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
  434.     =====================================
  435.     “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
  436.     =====================================
  437.     “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
  438.     =====================================
  439.     “So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
  440.     =====================================
  441.     “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
  442.     =====================================
  443.     “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
  444.     =====================================
  445.     “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, no~t our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does ot serve the world. There is nothing enlightened ab~out shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure aroun~d you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
  446.     =====================================
  447.     “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
  448.     =====================================
  449.     “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
  450.     =====================================
  451.     “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
  452.     =====================================
  453.     “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
  454.     =====================================
  455.     “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
  456.     =====================================
  457.     Khaled Hosseini
  458.     “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
  459.     =====================================
  460.     “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
  461.     =====================================
  462.     “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
  463.     =====================================
  464.     “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. ~Remember Cedric Diggory.”
  465.     =====================================
  466.     “Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
  467.     =====================================
  468.     “I declare after all there is no enjoymen~t like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house f my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
  469.     =====================================
  470.     “You never really understand a p~erson until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
  471.     =====================================
  472.     “I wish it need not h~ave happened in my time," said Frodo.
  473.     "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
  474.     =====================================
  475.     “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
  476.     =====================================
  477.     “Tis better to have loved and lost
  478.     Than never to have loved at all.”
  479.     =====================================
  480.     “I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
  481.     =====================================
  482.     “A lie can travel half way arou~nd the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
  483.     =====================================
  484.     “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
  485.     =====================================
  486.     “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
  487.     =====================================
  488.     “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon the~m.”
  489.     =====================================
  490.     The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
  491.     =====================================
  492.     “I don't hate them...I just feel better when hey're not around.”
  493.     =====================================
  494.     “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
  495.     =====================================
  496.     “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
  497.     =====================================
  498.     “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
  499.     =====================================
  500.     Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
  501.     And sorry I could not travel both
  502.     And be one traveler~, long I stood
  503.     And looked down one as far as I could
  504.     To where it bent in the undergrowth;
  505.     Then took the other, as just as fair,
  506.     And having perhaps the better claim,
  507.     Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
  508.     Though as for that the pa~ssing there
  509.     Had worn them really about the same,
  510.     And both that morning equally lay
  511.     In leaves no step had trodden black.
  512.     Oh, I kept the first for an~other day!
  513.     Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
  514.     I doubted if I should ever come back.
  515.     I shall be telling this ~with a sigh
  516.     Somewhere ages and ages hence:
  517.     Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
  518.     I took the one less traveled by,
  519.     And that has made all the difference.”
  520.     =====================================
  521.     “You're going to come across people in our life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
  522.     =====================================
  523.     “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
  524.     ======================~===============
  525.     “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
  526.     =====================================
  527.     “It takes ten times as long to~ put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
  528.     =====================================
  529.     “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
  530.     =====================================
  531.     “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.”
  532.     =====================================
  533.     “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
  534.     =====================================
  535.     “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
  536.     =====================================
  537.     “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
  538.     =====================================
  539.     “Peace begins with a smile..”
  540.     =====================================
  541.     “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
  542.     =====================================
  543.     “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma~d to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everythi~ng at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
  544.     =====================================
  545.     “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining nder the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
  546.     =====================================
  547.     “You are, and always have been, my dream.”
  548.     =====================================
  549.     “We love the things we love for what they are.”
  550.     =====================================
  551.     “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
  552.     =====================================
  553.     “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
  554.     =====================================
  555.     “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
  556.     =====================================
  557.     “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it ~one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
  558.     =====================================
  559.     “You are my best friend as wel~l as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
  560.     =====================================
  561.     “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
  562.     =====================================
  563.     “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
  564.     =====================================
  565.     “Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.”
  566.     =====================================
  567.     “For attractive lips, speak words of indness.
  568.     For lovely ey~es, seek out the good in people.
  569.     For a slim figure, share yo~ur food with the hungry.
  570.     For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
  571.     For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
  572.     ...
  573.     We leave you a tradition with a futur~e.
  574.     The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
  575.     People even mor~e than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
  576.     Never throw out anybody.
  577.     Remember, if you ever~ need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
  578.     As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
  579.     Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
  580.     Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
  581.     =====================================
  582.     “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
  583.     =====================================
  584.     “We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
  585.     "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
  586.     =====================================
  587.     “Sometimes you wake up. Somet~imes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
  588.     =====================================
  589.     “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
  590.     =====================================
  591.     “Count your age by frien~ds, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
  592.     =====================================
  593.     “You don't have to burn bo~oks to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
  594.     =====================================
  595.     “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
  596.     =====================================
  597.     “Happy Hunger Games! And may the dds be ever in your favor.”
  598.     =====================================
  599.     “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everythi~ng around us becomes better too.”
  600.     =====================================
  601.     “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
  602.     =====================================
  603.     “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
  604.     =====================================
  605.     “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
  606.     =====================================
  607.     “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
  608.     Mr. Prongs agrees ~with Mr. Moony, a~nd would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
  609.     Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
  610.     Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good ay, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
  611.     =====================================
  612.     “Every man has his secret~ sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
  613.     =====================================
  614.     “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
  615.     "Well, there g~oes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
  616.     "Selling them on what?"
  617.     Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.”
  618.     =====================================
  619.     “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
  620.     =====================================
  621.     “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
  622.     =====================================
  623.     “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
  624.     =====================================
  625.     “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
  626.     =====================================
  627.     “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
  628.     =====================================
  629.     “You cannot find peace by avo~iding life.”
  630.     =====================================
  631.     “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
  632.     =====================================
  633.     “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
  634.     =====================================
  635.     “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not ogether... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stron~ger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
  636.     =====================================
  637.     “I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter ~what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”
  638.     =====================================
  639.     “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
  640.     =====================================
  641.     “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do thin~gs. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
  642.     =====================================
  643.     “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
  644.     =====================================
  645.     “When you're in jail, a~ good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'

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