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“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
― Robert Heinlein

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Everything you want in life has teeth.”
― Jonathan Carroll, From the Teeth of Angels

“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”
― Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”
― Mark Twain

“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.”
― Mia Hamm

“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”
― Mia Hamm

“A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.”
― Mia Hamm, Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life

“Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.”
― Mia Hamm

“Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”
― Mia Hamm

“It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.”
― Mia Hamm

“My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too”
― Mia Hamm

“If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.”
― Mia Hamm

“If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.”
― Wanda Sykes

“If you give a poor man an acre of land around his house, he will be pleased and stay there for life. Build a wall around that acre, however, and all he will want is to escape.”
― Deepak Chopra, God: A Story of Revelation – A Beautiful Teaching on Enlightenment and Truth for Spiritual Seekers

“Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.”
― Depak Chopras

“If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets