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“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“All is calm, all is bright.”
― Joseph Mohr

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
― Ann Rule

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
― Tuli Kupferberg

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

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers