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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.


Francois de Fenelon

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CRAIG GROESCHEL The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
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E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we a...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Of those to whom too much is given - not much should be expected.
GRANT FAIRLEY we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
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GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M I'm annoyed. We were missing too much to come away with anything in the first half.
GUY LACOMBE The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART What fun we had, how beautiful we were.
E. LOCKHART Every one has a defects, so we accept in our life the one who "can" be identified with his advantage...
AHMED SAID Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
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SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not happen
DAN QUAYLE We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason i...
EDWARD R. MURROW I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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FRANCIS ASBURY I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
ABIGAIL ADAMS If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
JOHN ADAMS If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?
JOHN ADAMS We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES You can receive $900 or even $1,000 but when you don't appreaciate this money they don't have value.
DEYTH BANGER La tragedia no es glamurosa
E. LOCKHART Mi mente funciona de maneras misteriosas
E. LOCKHART Nuestro beso convierte el mundo en polvo
E. LOCKHART suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right
E. LOCKHART Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right
E. LOCKHART Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.
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GARY F EVANS... Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
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ROXE Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Sisi wote ni wanafunzi.
ENOCK MAREGESI Created visions of experiencing unreality.
VICDO We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
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The universe may for...
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NICK HORNBY Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
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But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
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EVELYN WAUGH If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
EVELYN WAUGH Always do what you're afraid to do.
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JULIE BISHOP If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more o...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either cease...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourse...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already posses...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small intere...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguish...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We pardon to the extent that we love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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