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When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for granted, which might be the very thing so dear about it.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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I don't believe in the Law of Attraction. There were things I wanted in my life that no amount of positive thinking was going to make it a reality for me. However, I have learned to believe in the Law of Tough Love. Life has thrown a dozen tragedies at me. I now realize that life is not about fulfilling a wish list; rather a need list. Good and bad experiences are on the horizon. How else does a person change, grow and evolve?

—Shannon L. Alder

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Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

—Tommy Cooper

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

—H. L. Mencken

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The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.

—Joan Rivers

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Leap, and the net will appear.

—John Burroughs

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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

—Michel de Montaigne

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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

—Roy Lichtenstein

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

—Rudyard Kipling

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

—e. e. cummings

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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

—Ralph W. Sockman

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You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong.

—Alain de Botton

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I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.

—David Foster Wallace

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

—Socrates

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