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

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“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

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Divide

“The power of human habit never failed to astonish her. How was it that two intelligent, decent people who basically loved each other could get so locked into a pattern of behavior that neither of them - or so she presumed - enjoyed? It was as if each knew the role he or she was expected to take and had no choice but to play it”
― Nicholas Evans, The Divide

“Maybe that's nature's way. Making people you once loved less lovable, so that it won't be so hard when they go.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Divide

“I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

“She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn’t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

“Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.”
― nicholas evans, The Horse Whisperer

“But you see Annie, where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

“Her only shame was that she felt none.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

“She did not expect to find him in the city; she did not want to find him. She never worried whether he would come or not. She never wondered whether he liked her. She never had any thought of him beyond the one that he existed. But she found it hard to find the existence of anything else.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

“It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was a song of soldiers bearing sacred banners and of priests carrying swords. It was an anthem to the sanctity of strength.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

“ഇലകളായ് ഇനി നമ്മള്‍ പുനര്‍ജനിക്കുമെങ്കില്‍
ഒരേ വൃക്ഷത്തില്‍ പിറക്കണം എനിക്കൊരു
കാമിനിയല്ല ആനന്ദത്താലും ദുഖത്താലും
കണ്ണ് നിറഞ്ഞൊരു പെങ്ങളില വേണം('പുരാവൃത്തം‌')”
― A. Ayyappan, Ayyappante Kavithakal Sampoornam

“കാടു കാണാനേറെക്കാലമായി
കൊതിക്കുന്നു
നാടു മടുത്തു, പോകാം
കാട്ടിലേക്കിനി യാത്ര”
― A. Ayyappan

“കരളുപങ്കിടാന്‍ വയ്യെന്റെ പ്രേമമേ
പകുതിയും കൊണ്ടുപോയി
ലഹരിയുടെ പക്ഷികള്‍”
― A. Ayyappan

“So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that’s easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe—comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy. There are many ways of doing that, but none is easier than taking her name away from her.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“[...] most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“And there’s one thing you need to know: desire always beats luck.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“[...] culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“We become what we are told we are. Ana has always been told that she’s wrong.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The very finest thing you can give a child is somewhere to belong. The biggest thing you can have is being part of something.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners