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The top has no limits. We can keep on climbing. That's what people do.
Ryōgo Narita
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Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being counted as just one more product on a shelf? There had to be more to a person than that.
Suzanne Weyn
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I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
Philip Sington
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What I'm trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn't throw anything at us that it knows we can't handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.
Alexandra Bracken
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Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.
Allan Pease
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The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.
Kevin Powers
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It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.
Anthony Marra
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We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
Ha Jin
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Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.
Bryan Davis (author)
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When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.
Ariel Gore
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Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.
Vikram Chandra (novelist)
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An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
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To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.
Tom Rob Smith
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Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.
Maxwell Bodenheim
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Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.
David R. Hawkins
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It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.
Abigail Tarttelin
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Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.
Ki Longfellow
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Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.
Sakyong Mipham
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You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?' 'Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of -' 'Someone you used to know?' Alec interjected skeptically. 'Someone I used to be.
Lynn Flewelling
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I just want to cuddle with my Lion and give him all the love nobody in the world has given him but me.
Katy Evans
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Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
William Kent Krueger
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This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is. It's called a spirit.
Colin Cotterill
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Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.
Ken Blanchard
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I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.
Christina Baker Kline
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Maybe da Vinci didn't serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.
Monica Drake
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