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When something or someone is no longer bringing you up, but pulling you down—it’s time to let go. When something or someone is no longer adding to your life, but subtracting from it—it’s time to let go.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.

—Jill Shalvis in Simply Irresistible

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To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

—Henry Drummond

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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

—Frank Zappa

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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

—Stephen King

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Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.

—Miranda July in No One Belongs Here More Than You

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All grand thoughts come from the heart.

—Luc de Clapiers

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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

—Anatole France

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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

—Thomas Edison

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No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

—Courtney Milan in Unraveled

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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

—Jef Mallett

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

—Tom Wolfe

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"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

—Ray Bradbury

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