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Life is too short…and nothing is certain. Nothing. Just because you tell someone you'll talk to them later, or you'll see them tomorrow, there is no guarantee that either of those things will happen. You hope they will. Hell, we all assume they will. But we don't really know. Life can change in an instant. A single instant.

—J. Sterling in Chance Encounters 

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If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery. If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

—Mary Higgins Clark in On the Street Where You Live

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It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or two the scar tissue separates and the wound is raw again.

—Mary Higgins Clark in The Second Time Around

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An introvert may feel asocial when pressured to go to a party that doesn't interest her. But for her, the event does not promise meaningful interaction. In fact, she knows that the party will leave her feeling more alone and alienated. Her social preference may be to stay home and reflect on a conversation with a friend, call that friend, and come to an understanding that is meaningful to her. Or she might indulge in the words of a favorite author, feeling a deep connection with a person she has never met. From the perspective of a partygoer, this introvert may appear to be asocial, when, in fact, the introvert is interacting in a much different way.

—Laurie Helgoe in Introvert Power

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Good things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people.  Fair is just a weathercast.

—C.L. Quinn in Endless Days

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What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?

—Tammara Webber in Between the Lines

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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

—Blake Clark

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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Everything popular is wrong.

—Oscar Wilde

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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

—Richard Wright

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Love is too young to know what conscience is.

—William Shakespeare

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Fine. You don't want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

—Abbi Glines in Just for Now

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Only then do I acknowledge that what I am feeling might actually be true happiness. Even joy. Over the past several days, when I have felt the beginnings of this emotion tugging at my heart, it has crossed my mind that the key to happiness should not be found in a man. That an independent, strong woman should feel fulfilled and whole on her own. Those things might be true. And without him in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with him than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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