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Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: 'Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places.

—Darren Hardy in The Compound Effect

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That was what I feared most: that he just wasn't excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward, I started seeing the evidence everywhere: in the way he didn't sleep facing me anymore, or the way he'd stopped asking me the questions he used to need to know the answers to, the way he stopped needing to tell me things in order for them to count.

—Laura Dave in London Is the Best City in America

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I'd finally found a place―and maybe even some people―worth holding on to.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Wintergirls

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Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

—Lynn Johnston

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The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

—Seth MacFarlane

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

—Henry Cate VII

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I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

—Queen Juliana

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Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

—Franklin P. Jones

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Quality is pride of workmanship.

—W. Edwards Deming

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It is better to learn late than never.

—Publilius Syrus

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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

—Ella Maillart

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Nature was my kindergarten.

—William Christopher Handy

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Great artists have no country.

—Alfred de Musset

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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

—Philip Guston

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