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Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose—allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to that miserable place you go every day.

—Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

—Henry Moore

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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

—Brendan Francis

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Things are only impossible until they're not.

—Hannah Louise Shearer

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

—Evan Esar

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

—Albert Camus

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Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

—Georges Bernanos

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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

—W. C. Fields

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

—Daniel J. Boorstin

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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

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People protect what they love.

—Jacques Yves Cousteau

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

—Anne Frank

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

—H. L. Mencken

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If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

—Elbert Hubbard

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