If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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