I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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