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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

—George Bernard Shaw

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You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don't say this as a condemnation–I need regular reminders to stop feeling sorry for myself too. I'm going to address you bluntly, but it's a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgement of you. Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

—Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things

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This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things! That's the way the work has to go. You make connections in your work… That's what we do, we people who make things. If it's a stool or a film or a poem or an essay or a novel or a musical composition, it's all about that. Finding how it fits together and fitting it together.

—Wendell Berry

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I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery.

—Rich Frye

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I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

—Reggie Watts

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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

—Robert Brault

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Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Year

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Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen―because you love each other.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

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Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

—Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road

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You get through it, you just never get over it.

—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth

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An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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You ever have that feeling? Like you've known someone your whole life but you don't know them at all.

—Ann Aguirre in Blue Diablo

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No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guess you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

—Sarah Mlynowski in Ten Things We Did

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Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give―and then realize that it still isn't what they need?

—Jodi Picoult in The Pact

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I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

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