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“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Powell SJ

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
― D.H. Lawrence

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
― Vandana Shiva

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories