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When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

—Charles Baxter in Burning Down the House

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Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

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Mistakes are really not that big of a deal. In fact, as most of us acknowledge, we need to make mistakes in order to learn and to grow.

—Richard Carlson in The Big Book of Small Stuff

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This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

—Daniel Ellsberg

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If you live in the past, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

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I couldn’t love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn’t love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that’s all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.

—Rainbow Rowell in Attachments

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I can deal with anything, as long as I know it’s the truth. It’s the lies that are hard.

—Jennifer Laurens in Penitence

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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

—Ray Bradbury in Dandelion Wine

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Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

—Swami Vivekananda

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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

—Dale Carnegie

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Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

—Frank Dane

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

—Ian Fleming

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

—Steve Jobs

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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

—John Lennon

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