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People loved you in the way they knew how—and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

—Josh Lanyon in The Dark Tide

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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

—Joseph Brodsky

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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

—A. J. Liebling

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

—Peter McWilliams

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The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

—Tom Robbins in Jitterbug Perfume

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

—G. K. Chesterton

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I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

—Warsan Shire

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If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

—Thomas Merton

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Life is always uncertain. We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

—Susanna Kearsley in The Rose Garden

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I'm thankful for every moment.

—Al Green

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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

—Charles Kuralt

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The more we do, the more we can do.

—William Hazlitt

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

—Robert Frost

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Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

—Eileen Wilks in Tempting Danger

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