Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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