Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble
Sarah Dessen
Related You look around and most faces are men - it's definitely noticeable. It's not something you think ab... EMILY CHRISTY Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while..... VINCE LOMBARDI The events that happen in our lives make us who we are ,we can either give in to them and let them w... GARY F EVANS... I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don�... VINCE LOMBARDI Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do... VINCE LOMBARDI It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO We say we make progress relentlessly in little steps a day at a time. And we just keep taking little... GEORGE CASEY Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. ... GERALD HAUSMAN It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain... J.A. REDMERSKI They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a l... JAMES JONES You are all I think about. You know that right? You haunt my mind, but in a good way. You are absolu... MARY PITTMAN Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS to do something unparalleled in the world, and especially at the beginning of the 21st Century, and ... BOB GELDOF Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you st... C.S. LEWIS Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later and then you sti... C.S. LEWIS 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT It is really tough. It feels like there is an elephant on your back, you feel flat, your legs feel w... CONRAD STOLTZ When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all... J.M. BARRIE Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS It's just getting into the ebb and flow of the season. I struggled a little bit at the beginning, bu... CORY SULLIVAN You can practice all the time, but it's better to get into the games. It's always a little bit diffe... JASON MARSHALL When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the... ELISABETH SHUE You don’t have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near; it has been preparing for it all... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the re... NIKKI ROWE You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up... ONE DIRECTION Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don'... VINCE LOMBARDI I aimed it -- not quite as far right as the ball went -- but you want to shade it a little bit,... JASON ELAM I don't have to understand the in and out of you. I have to understand when its time for me to get o... SUSIE L HILL Never say i m bored because its not your life thats boring its all you that make it boring! SUPERNA BATHEJA When it’s right you can’t remember. Every time you read it again it comes as a great and unbelie... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all it... KENT NERBURN Why do you eat? Why to sleep? If you cant be a trustworthy person, cant be a true lover, cant be a g... WRITER GRADED But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h... SARAH DESSEN It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, ... E. B. WHITE the one thing about fashion is everyone wants that one moment when they look fabuloous and they feel... VERONICA WEBB Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live ... ROBERT E. LEE There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anythin... THOMAS HUGHES When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its con... SHIRLEY MACLAINE Acceptance Is The Most Happiest Thing Than Expectation BHARATH RAO KADAM We keep things piled up inside, even the harshest response seems appropriate. NCIS Oh yeah. I mean, it's everything, especially when you run a 5-1. That's your quarterback and they ha... BEN STROUD It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. QUINCY JONES When you?re the first producer affected in Europe you feel a bit guilty. I have trouble sleeping. DANIEL CLAIR Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER indeed its a hurting moment when you cant approach the most missing thing in ur life SHAZIA SULTAN I like to see anybody get going, especially Pat. He starts feeling it, you know he's feeling it. He'... RAVI MOSS Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for al... KENT NERBURN Every decision you make—every decision—is not a decision about what to do. It’s a decision abo... NEALE DONALD WALSCH The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself... TWINKLE KHANNA If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN I think anything you impose on players, the first reaction is going to be, 'Nah, I don't want to do ... ANTONIO DAVIS They should feel bad. That's what winning and losing is all about. You put in so much time and when ... GEORGE O'LEARY All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy ROBERT ANDERSON What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer w... SANHITA BARUAH When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all ... JAMES BARRIE When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all ... JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out l... SARAH DESSEN When we feel discouraged, it is so easy to feel more discouraged; when we feel dissatisfied, it is o... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they'... L. M. MONTGOMERY Nothing you love is left behind. You come back to it once you understand it, once you see its essenc... VLADIMIRA CHALYOVA I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it... EDEN SHER Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of you... BIBLE Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in ... ETHEL ROSENBERG Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger aroun... JIM BUTCHER When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every ath... KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you... CHRIS PRENTISS I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble s... VIKKI WAKEFIELD At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like... MEREDITH GREY Just getting back into the game and making it a game is all heart. It feels bad, though, because we ... ALLEN IVERSON You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you e... JASON CALACANIS It's disappointing not to win one or both games. When you leave it into overtime and shootouts, anyt... JASON STRUDWICK Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you ... HEIDI KLUM We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When... JOHN LEWIS Grab every chance given and do not throw it away; always cherish what you already have, for you neve... IMANIA MARGRIA Its hard because you went through camp with these guys and you cant be with them when you win, you c... GERALD HAYES I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide wh... ROBERT POZEN Try to forget bit by bit, it will be easier on you. Leave it behind. Then the plane tilts in its esc... COLSON WHITEHEAD You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumble... ROSHANI CHOKSHI When you don't have to shoot anything from more than three or four feet, you better win. We couldn't... CURT DOBBS You can feel the excitement of being a contender again. When you get beat on for a few years and hav... SCOTT ARNIEL Some years you get a group of students coming through and every parent wants to be involved, and it'... GREG HUDNALL Oftentimes, WWE lives in its own bubble because it is forever moving. Oftentimes, a motion picture w... JOHN CENA Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'... ADRIAN LYNE And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into yo... SAKI I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fu... ANGELINA JOLIE when you have nothing to do as a kid, that's how you get into trouble. JOAN LUNDEN That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease. If only I... PAUL AUSTER That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I ... PAUL AUSTER All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and... JOHN O'DONOHUE Insecurity has in most cases has nothing to do with the you...its to do with the other person and th... DRU EDMUND KUCHERERA Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou... JOSEPH FARRELL It ran on its toes, especially when it got going. That's what all fast animals do. DAVID S. BERMAN The greatest thing you can have when you compose a film score is a bit of time to think before you h... ANNE DUDLEY Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of som... TOM ROBBINS She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some... TONI MORRISON Why do we choose sadness over happiness, when we are hurting? answer is simple, because every other ... SNEHA AGARWAL i can go on all day pretending to be happy an fooling the world and leave you wondiring when im gone... AMBER FAITH HUN We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything tha... GREGORY STOCK It's like in baseball when you get a hold of one. You don't take any of the absorption, you're givin... MARK CAMPBELL
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We all... SARAH DESSEN Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the... SARAH DESSEN I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran... SARAH DESSEN Nothing like being scolded by a hippie. SARAH DESSEN After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and sp... SARAH DESSEN I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. SARAH DESSEN Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never rea... SARAH DESSEN After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor wo... SARAH DESSEN It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost... SARAH DESSEN It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should... SARAH DESSEN When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need. SARAH DESSEN That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death... SARAH DESSEN It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean. SARAH DESSEN I want the white one SARAH DESSEN As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret... SARAH DESSEN Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?"... SARAH DESSEN I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as... SARAH DESSEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." SARAH DESSEN Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there h... SARAH DESSEN I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings... SARAH DESSEN If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�... SARAH DESSEN Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff... SARAH DESSEN There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto... SARAH DESSEN That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing... SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in... SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. SARAH DESSEN It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y... SARAH DESSEN These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to... SARAH DESSEN You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like... SARAH DESSEN Story of my life. SARAH DESSEN instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ... SARAH DESSEN I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin... SARAH DESSEN I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ... SARAH DESSEN I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t... SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak... SARAH DESSEN Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. SARAH DESSEN So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that lo... SARAH DESSEN