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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

—Dale Carnegie

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

—Iris Murdoch

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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

—Duke Ellington

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

—Albert Camus

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Art is the proper task of life.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

—Jerzy Kosiński

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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

—Melody Beattie

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If you don't try at anything, you can't fail. It takes back bone to lead the life you want.

—Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road

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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

—Richard Adams in Watership Down

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If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.

—Lindsey Kelk in I Heart New York

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You aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again. You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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