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I may not be all sunshine and rainbows all the time, but I’m not a bad person.
That’s how it felt like love should be—inevitable. Irresistible. Written in the stars.
Never give anything away unless you know it will benefit you somehow in the long run.
Never settle for a woman who isn’t beautiful. But take care that she’s not stupid, either. Beautiful, stupid women have been the undoing of many a great man.
Don’t let anybody get to you, and if they get to you, don’t let them see it. Neve...
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Because I knew: You can try to keep the worst things down inside you. You can shove them away, not think about them, not deal. But they bubble up to the surface. They always do.
Without stories, we’re all just lonely islands.”
“Stories let us see and hear and feel what someone else does,” she explained. “They build bridges to the other islands. That’s why stories are so important. They create true empathy.”
“I just think, we don’t get promised anything good in this life. Bad things happen all the time. They’re happening right now, somewhere out there. They’ll keep happening. Who knows? Maybe this moment, right here, is as good as I’m ever going to be.”
“Love can be an excellent motivator for change. Falling in love can help us to see the things in life that are truly important. It can make us want to be better people.
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess,”
even when we know it’s a mistake or that things are going to end badly, we still choose to fight for the people we love.”
It’s never too late to become what one could have been.
‘There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.’”
It’s a wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
And if you’re wondering if I changed—if I really and truly became a better person than I was in the beginning—I’ll tell you that I have good days and bad ones, of course, like everybody else, but I’m growing. I’ll get there.
But love doesn’t always have to be about the happy ending. Love can be about beginnings, too.
