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Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

—Terry Pratchett

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You said you didn't want to waste your time on people who aren't going to matter. But how do you know they're not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?

—Morgan Matson in  Second Chance Summer

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This is what a total breakdown must be. You find yourself standing somewhere you shouldn't be, doing something so out of character that you wonder if you've become someone else entirely.

—Gilly Macmillan in Burnt Paper Sky

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Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

—C. JoyBell C.

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Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you'll see which one he is.

—Penelope Douglas in Falling Away

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When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.

—Tammara Webber in Where You Are

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The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

—Jennifer Niven in All the Bright Places

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

—Oscar Wilde

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

—William Feather

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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

—James Taylor

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We were drifting apart. I felt helpless to stop the pattern, but still, I held onto him for dear life.

—R.K. Lilley in Rock Bottom

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Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

—Aleatha Romig in Consequences

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You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.

—Sherman Alexie in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

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