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“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“Deserve your dream.”
― octavio paz

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
― Iris Johansen, Countdown

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

“I've never wanted a quiet life.”
― Lydia Cacho

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666