Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINWe are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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