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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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If you ask why I'm not interested in someone, I might say their nose is too big, or they don't know how to dress, or they're too thin or too fat or too plain. But the truth is, I only notice those things because of the real reason—that I'm just not feeling anything. But people don't want to hear that. They always want an explanation. So I have to come up with something concrete even though feelings aren't like that. If I did meet a guy and I felt happy with him for whatever reason, I wouldn't care what he wore or how tall he was or what he did for a living. But when I'm with someone and it just doesn't feel right, that's when I start noticing the bad haircut or uni-brow. And it's true that tomorrow I may go home with someone who you think is totally wrong for me. And the next day I might meet a perfectly nice guy who you think I should feel excited about, but I don't. But if I do go home with someone, it means for a change, something feels right. For a change, I'm feeling hopeful. I just want to feel happy when I'm with someone. Is that so wrong?

—Caren Lissner in Starting from Square Two

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Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

—Emile Coue

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Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

—Jose Marti

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

—Eric Hoffer

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The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

—John Green

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

—Woody Allen

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

—Saki

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Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

—Unknown

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

—Jean Rostand

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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

—J. B. Priestley

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