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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart—or the darker places of her soul.

—Christine Feehan in Turbulent Sea

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

—Rita Rudner

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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.

—Kin Hubbard

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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

—Martin Gardner

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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

—Jack Handey

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I praise loudly. I blame softly.

—Catherine the Great

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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

—William Butler Yeats

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

—Mark Twain

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Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity.

—Julie Garwood in Prince Charming

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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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