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 FITZGERALDVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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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 loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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