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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSuddenly 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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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