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Related 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... The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN 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're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... 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 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." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... 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 answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON 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... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not. ANTHONY T. HINCKS We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. SUNDAY ADELAJA 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 What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un... 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. LORRIN L. LEE We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom 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 If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO God doesn't punish us. We do that all by ourselves. ANTHONY T. HINCKS We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not happen DAN QUAYLE We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO You can receive $900 or even $1,000 but when you don't appreaciate this money they don't have value. DEYTH BANGER We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO In some cases we neglect our health, because we were never told about its value. SUNDAY ADELAJA An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ... ANUROOP TYAGI You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN We cannot wish for that we know not. VOLTAIRE Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ... CELESTINE L. GRAY We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mist... VERONICA ROSSI We live in relative world with relatives. DEYTH BANGER The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. CHINESE PROVERB For years I thought we were on the same page...then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book..... KJFORCE We are all joined in a circle of stories. LINDA JOY MYERS There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer. ROBERT LYND Normally, we're never satisfied. CRAIG GROESCHEL Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose PARKER LOUIS SEELY All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they thi... PATRICIA LOCKWOOD 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 Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... CHRISTINA ENGELA We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all ... PETER HøEG Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave... EMILY LLOYD-JONES Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. CRAIG GROESCHEL So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we... DEYTH BANGER When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN People like the way things are in Winneshiek County, the quality of life and healthy living. There's... BRENDA RANUM What you call dirty and muddy place, is what a pig calls his palace SOTONYE ANGA See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS It's a time of great uncertainty, but we are focused on doing great journalism for ourselves because... AMANDA BENNETT We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. VOLTAIRE For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. BARBARA JORDAN
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