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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.


Elizabeth Aston

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THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL This is an Aston Martin, Gin.You don't run over dead bodies in an Aston Matin."
"Tell that to J...
JENNIFER ESTEP Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mi...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
ANUJ SOMANY Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
UNKNOWN An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
JOSEPH MCCABE When you have nothing nobody knows you. When you have something everyone knows you. If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
JIM FOX Live for today with your eyes on the future.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Don't let anyone blind you with their criticism, you're just beautiful.
AMAN JANGDA Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something.
ARDIT BALISHA The hardest step to take is always the first one.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL To rule an iceberg, you must swim,.. Deep. Pour régner sur l'iceberg, il faut savoir nager en profo...
CARL MATHIEU Behave with kind with surrendorist, but behave with cruelty with enemy.
NITIN S DHARKAR Words are magic to those who chose to listen, to those who don’t are bones.
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ATTILâ İLHAN A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend...
LEO ROBIN I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; the...
SERGIO TRONCOSO He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
ARISTOTLE Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
JOHN GREEN but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
JOHN GREEN El pasado es una historia lógica. Es el sentido de lo que sucedió. Pero como el futuro todavía no...
JOHN GREEN Kau bisa melihat masa depan kalau kau punya pemahaman dasar tentang bagaimana orang akan bersikap
JOHN GREEN Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata
JOHN GREEN And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absenc...
JOHN GREEN Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But ...
JOHN GREEN Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could sta...
JOHN GREEN En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting in
time?” TERRY BISSON There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope
MUNIA KHAN Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
ARISTOTLE Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.
ROSHANI CHOKSHI They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public i...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY We must not think of ornament as something added to an object which might have been ugly without it....
ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
ALANIS MORISETTE I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
ALANIS MORISSETTE When you love someone, it's never over,' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you ha...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER The difference between leader and boss is that leaders set the rule for themselves to take along fol...
ANUJ SOMANY you can not understand what i feel for you. because your heart beats for some other one.
PRASOON DWIVEDI i am not rich, but my heart is enough rich that you can stay there for the rest of your life.
PRASOON DWIVEDI Keeping an eye on own self is an Introspection.
JYOTSNAJHA Watching on one’s doing and what he should do for his desires is an Introspection.
JYOTSNAJHA We are all but slaves to an ideal
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ Strength is not a virtue of the strong but an illusion of the weak
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ Things change, and so do people. The only thing that doesn't change are the memories ❤
DAZZLїиG_Бципу Death is the conclusion of an everlasting essay.
ROSA M. BETANCES It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI For what is a man if he is not succesful in love
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by yo...
STEPHEN D'MELLO A True education is an ornament in times of prosperity and it is a refuge in times of adversity. –...
ARISTOTLE Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.
SHANNON L. ALDER If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
ELIZABETH I ...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort h...
MARMADUKE WILLIAM PICKTHALL You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
JOHN GREEN Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets ...
SIGMUND FREUD Every believer should be an apostle since each believer is sent by the Lord Jesus to go and bear fru...
HENRY HON Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I h...
ANNE FRANK Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
ARISTOTLE Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We d...
MARY, CROWN PRINCESS OF DENMARK I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong....
ANNE FRANK Miracle: to love more with an irreparable heartache
NICOLA AN Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
AN WANG Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those m...
AN WANG The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze ...
CHING-AN No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form w...
AN WANG When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.
YING-AN I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself up...
AN NA You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
AN WANG My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
AN WANG You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will...
AN WANG I founded Wang Laboratories to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries ...
AN WANG We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another r...
AN WANG He was shot at by his real brother just at the entrance of his residence.
AN ROY We have found spare parts for an IED but the materials were as yet unassembled.
AN ROY If left untouched, nothing may have happened. The explosive material has been sent for testing.
AN ROY It's for all to see that stern police activity has curbed crimes.
AN ROY We are likely to convene a meeting of officials of RBI and banking institutions to convey our securi...
AN ROY We will act in an unbiased manner and take whatever action necessary.
AN ROY I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it soun...
AN NA Loving you feels like my commitment to eternity a long time ago
NICOLA AN To be alone was my best interest because needing myself was looking for you
NICOLA AN Maybe we are stars apart from each other, that there's an invisible line connecting us. I'd like to ...
NICOLA AN I hear them say "Why do I miss someone I haven't even met?"
How about not missing someone becau...
NICOLA AN Oh Love, whenever I hear your name, I hear the heartbeat of every lifetime all at once. I feel the h...
NICOLA AN You are a song I could listen to over and over again although I'm convinced it had played in my head...
NICOLA AN You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that wil...
AN WANG

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ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom":
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2. You have just cl...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
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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