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“...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.”
― Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

“In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, The Enoch Letters

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back”
― Arthur Rubinstein

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
― Anais Nin

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
― Barbara De Angelis

“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”
― Barbara De Angelis, Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul

“I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.”
― Barbara de Angelis

“The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.”
― Barbara De Angelis

“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”
― Cherie Carter-Scott

“The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
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― Lawana Blackwell, Catherine's Heart

“Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
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― Lawana Blackwell

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.”
― James Russell Lowell

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
― Albert Pike

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
― John F. Kennedy

“To find what you seek in the road of life,the best proverb of all is that wich says:
"Leave no stone unturned.”
― edward bulwer lytton

“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.”
― Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.”
― Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates