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 FITZGERALDFor 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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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