At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo 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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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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