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“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
― Dan Brown, Deception Point

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness.”
― Lisa Kogan

“We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...”
― Emil Cioran

“I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.”
― Jesse Hajicek, The Forge of Dawn

“I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of my fellow men. But we have all a chance of meeting with some pity, some tenderness, some charity, when we are dead: it is the living only who cannot be forgiven - the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind. While the heart beats, bruise it - it is your only opportunity; while the eye can still turn towards you with moist, timid entreaty, freeze it with an icy unanswering gaze; while the ear, that delicate messenger to the inmost sanctuary of the soul, can still take in the tones of kindness, put it off with hard civility, or sneering compliment, or envious affectation of indifference; while the creative brain can still throb with the sense of injustice, with the yearning for brotherly recognition - make haste - oppress it with your ill-considered judgements, your trivial comparisons, your careless misrepresentations. The heart will by and by be still - ubi saeoa indignatio ulterius cor lacerate nequit; the eye will cease to entreat; the ear will be deaf; the brain will have ceased from all wants as well as from all work. Then your charitable speeches may find vent; then you may remember and pity the toil and the struggle and the failure; then you may give due honour to the work achieved; then you may find extenuation for errors, and may consent to bury them ("The Lifted Veil")”
― Mary Ann Evans, The Lifted Veil

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.”
― Lauren Dane, Once and Again

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”
― José Saramago, The Cave

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
― Robert Frost

“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”
― Brené Brown

“Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.”
― Jon Bloom

“The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear”
― Les Dossey

“I love fake people provided they are mannequins.”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker)”
― Jamie Haden, Spirit Seeker

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

“Heavenly Father, pour your spirit upon me, I desire to do your will in Jesus Name. Amen!!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, On Eagles Wings:Rise

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
― Anatole France

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”
― Miriam Toews, Swing Low

“I prefer long-distance relationships. If we were dating, would you be offended if I asked you to stand back a few feet?”
― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light