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Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.
The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.
Once you have made a decision and there is no turning back, acceptance is the only comfort.
If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.
Say me aye," he whispered against her mouth. "Say me aye." How could she say anything else?
How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue... Pray more words about it than you speak.
Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.
Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.
Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
One, and two, and three, four, five. Keep fighting like this and you will die," Janco sang.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.
We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered.
in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.
There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice!
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.
Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.
Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.
We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.
God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.
I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.
If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.