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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best revenge is massive success.”
― Frank Sinatra

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.”
― Erma Bombeck

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
― Nelson Mandela

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
― Michael Jordan

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”
― Michael Jordan

“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley, Bob Marley: Guitar Chord Songbook

“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”
― Harlan Coben

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
― Earl Nightingale

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.”
― Earl Nightingale

“You are now, and you do become, what you think about.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.”
― Robert G. Allen, The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth

“within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.”
― Rhawn Joseph

“Hermione le echó el plan por los suelos al señalarle que, en el improbable caso de que Harry consiguiera desenvolverse con ella en el plazo de una hora, lo descalificarían con toda seguridad por quebrantar el Estatuto Internacional del Secreto de los Brujos:”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter y el cáliz de fuego

“the Iranian Crisis of 1946 was the first major East-West confrontation of the Cold War.”
― Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power