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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key

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When you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club

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You alone are responsible for what you do, don't do, or how you respond to what's done to you.

—Darren Hardy in The Compound Effect

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When you're in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands.

—Jess Rothenberg in The Catastrophic History of You and Me

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He seemed to be doing just fine. Which was what I wanted. Because I was fine, too. Right?

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

—Larry Hardiman

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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

—Dave Barry

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

—Oscar Levant

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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

—Max Beerbohm

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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

—Samuel Johnson

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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

—John Locke

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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

—Confucius

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

—William Blake

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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

—Hans Christian Andersen

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