Life is happening whether you embrace it or not. You need to let go of the past, the pain, whatever holds you back from having a bright life.

—S.L. Scott in Scorned

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Don't ever lose yourself in somebody else. It's hard to remember who you used to be if they disappear.

—S.L. Scott in The Resistance

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It's the little things that make up your life. The bigger events just connect them.

—S.L. Scott in Charlie

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Sacrifice is romantic until the only payoff is a broken heart and endless pain.

—Deborah Bladon in CHANCE

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

—Marcus Aurelius

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

—Edith Wharton

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Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, wear them, eat them—without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret.

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