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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

—Blaise Pascal

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All work is the avoidance of harder work.

—James Richardson in Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

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It was sad that any devotion or encouragement I got from someone made me emotional. But it was rare.

—Abbi Glines in Until The End

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If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don't. It's not that complicated. Don't waste moments waiting and wondering. Don't throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn't want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

—Francis Quarles

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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

—Margaret Mead

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In art, the obvious is a sin.

—Edward Dmytryk

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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

—William Congreve

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I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.

—Jojo Moyes in Foreign Fruit

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Love in the real world doesn't usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don't always get fairytale endings. People split up and move on.

—Richelle Mead in Succubus Shadows

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It wasn't just his charming smile–anyone could have that. It was his willingness to be silly just to make her laugh. It was that he supported her work even though he had no clue what it was about. And when he looked at her, she felt like the smartest, most beautiful person in the world.

—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd

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You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.

— Jessica Sorensen in The Secret of Ella and Micha

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

—Victor Hugo

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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

—Joseph Roux

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

—Maya Angelou

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