It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

—Laurence J. Peter

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About Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.

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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

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Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? She would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

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What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

—Leo Buscaglia

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

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Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory.

—Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement

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You don’t ever really let go, though. You don’t stop. You don’t stop hurting, you don’t stop loving. It doesn’t go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it’s not consuming you every day. And then one day you know you’re okay. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And yeah, you forget the details. The way she smelled, the way her mouth tasted, how her skin felt, the sound of her voice. It’s almost like a different life, a different person that loved her, was with her. But on a day-to-day level, you know you’re okay. Sort of.

—Jasinda Wilder in Falling Into You

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