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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Last Song

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You never know when love will come along and change everything.

—K. Langston in Because You’re Mine

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

—George Washington Carver

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I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet, everything we do, it changes us. It makes us who we are. And, if we’re lucky, we’re given the chance to make things right again.

—Karina Halle in Sins & Needles

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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

—Ralph Marston

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

—Rene Descartes

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And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you’re watching someone die.

—Melina Marchetta in On the Jellicoe Road

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Just say something real. Everyone just always tries so hard, and it all comes out the same. I just want someone to say something real.

—Katie Alender in Bad Girls Don’t Die

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

—Edith Wharton

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

—Hunter S. Thompson

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