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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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