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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”
― Beatrix Potter

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I need, therefore I imagine.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel the same way,that you'll somehow forget what we shared, so this is what I want to do. Wherever you are and no matter what's going on in your life, when it's the first night of the full moon-like it was the first time we met-I want you to find it in the nighttime sky. I want you to think about me and the week we shared, because wherever I am and no matter what's going on in my life, that's exactly what I'll be doing. If we can't be together, at least we can share that, and maybe between the two of us, we can make it last forever.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
― nicholas sparks

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”
― Marc Hack

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
― Gloria Steinem