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The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

—George Ade

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

—Dwight L. Moody

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That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

—Nina LaCour in Hold Still

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

—Sara Zarr in Sweethearts

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But the thing is, sometimes my whole tough girl act gets a little old, even for me. Especially when it's what everyone expects from me, all the time.

—Bella Andre in Love Me

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

—T. S. Eliot

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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

—Gautama Buddha

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Peace begins with a smile.

—Mother Teresa

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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

—Hosea Ballou

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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

—Samuel Butler

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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

—Gwendolyn Brooks

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Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

—Georges Braque

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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

—David Hockney

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There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

—Judith McNaught in Remember When

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