Tonya Hurley Quotes

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Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be used against you.

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If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

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I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.

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It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.

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Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet — that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.

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We don't miss what we never had, but we miss terribly things we almost had. And we miss things we used to have most of all. Through we hope and pray for our relationships, our looks, and our lives to improve, having more also means having more to lose.

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You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

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Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love.

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We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.

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If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

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Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.

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I always find that I'm at my best,' Eric said leadingly, 'when I'm at my worst.

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We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

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You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly each time, but deep down, you don't really believe it would ever happen, because it's something that happens to someone else, not to you.

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A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.

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The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.

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She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

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We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity — self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness — are the least attractive in a friend.

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The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come into our lives for reasons we can't yet understand.

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We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

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Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

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Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

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