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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

—Peter De Vries

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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

—John Andrew Holmes

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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

—Charlie Chaplin

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Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you're you.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

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Don't simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.

—Joel Osteen in Your Best Life Now

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When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can't just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Maybe in Another Life

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You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.

—Teresa Lo in Realities

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

—Galileo Galilei

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

—Winston Churchill

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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

—Kahlil Gibran

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She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

—Cecelia Ahern in  P.S. I Love You

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If the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you.' No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

—Friedrich Engels

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