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Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.

—Janette Oke in Love Comes Softly

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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

—Anne Lamott in Plan B

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Why should I be so upset about someone who could treat me so badly?

—Lindsey Kelk in What A Girl Wants

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That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.

—John Green in Looking for Alaska

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The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

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I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

—Horace Walpole

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

—Thomas Fuller

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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

—Steven Wright

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

—Herbert Henry Asquith

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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

—Winston Churchill

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

—Paul Valéry

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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

—Rudyard Kipling

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Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

—Evan Esar

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

—Christopher Morley

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