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Related The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself. J. IRWIN MILLER A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter t... ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE Take these broken wings and learn to fly. PAUL MCCARTNEY No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicke... LAUREN WEISBERGER The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet... KATE CHOPIN [He] looked exactly like Michael's idea of Don Quixote, 'the luminary and mirror of all knight-erran... ELIZABETH GOUDGE, THE ROSEMARY TREE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness.<... JIM BUTCHER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.” -Helen to Sophia about Alistair ELIZABETH HOYT She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i... ELIZABETH HOYT Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others. RAHEEL FAROOQ To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one... BERNARD M. MARTIN SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of othe... PASCAL MERCIER It is important to realize that if certain areas of science appear to be quite mature, others are in... SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In a good paining, each stroke is uniquely required yet it relates to all others in forming the tota... JONATHAN CHEN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Each and every day we are given the chance to set a course yet uncharted and to live life like never... STEVE THOMPSON We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posse... SAMUEL JOHNSON We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it posses... SAMUEL JOHNSON We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posses... SAMUEL JOHNSON The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL How do you ever hold on to anybody? ELIZABETH WEIN All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mil... JOE HENDERSON Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comfortin... JARED LETO Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Values-based organizations are the most enduring, the most sustainable and consistent. Yet they rema... LINDA CHANDLER Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA They were kids [black and white] who had never been in touching distance of each other and knew noth... HERMAN BOONE The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in eac... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW The little things are most worthwhile- A quite word, a look, a smile, A listening ear that... MARGARET LINDSEY Women in London must have learned not to breathe, IRENE TRIMBLE We found quite a collection of debris in there -- worms, frogs, salamanders and granular calcium, wh... TONY DAVIS Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torme... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work ... ELIZABETH GILBERT It's never been confirmed that Elizabeth was a virgin. It's like the Virgin Mary - it's about brandi... HELEN MIRREN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm fo... LAFCADIO HEARN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES It will enable people to learn in a way that they are most comfortable. Some people like to read, wh... JAMES MAHAR Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent. SUSAN SONTAG How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort. GINA GREENLEE I didn't feel they had been fully reconciled or integrated with each other. STEPHEN WHITE Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family. CARLENE CARTER - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH
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Eventually, everything goes away. ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin... ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful. ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i... ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m... ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an... ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio... ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou... ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other... ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha... ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili... ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening... ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you. ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless. ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN