Handiani's quotes

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"In vain I have struggled. It will not do! My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you... Almost from the earliest moments of your acquaintance, I have come to feel for you a passionate admiration and regard, which despite my struggles, has overcome every rational objection. And I beg you, most fervently, to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
— Leo Tolstoy

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"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: change
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
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— Helen Fielding/Bridget Jones

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"Greetings! I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us."
— Vulcan Greeting, Star Trek

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"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. "
— Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea)

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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
— Aristotle

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"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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"Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

tags: common, senisibility, sense
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"Humankind above all is lazy."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

tags: harriet, lazy
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""If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.”"
— John Churton Collins

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"No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed."
— A.S. Byatt (Possession)

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"Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed"
— Nights in rodanthe--nicholas sparks

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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,335 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
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