Never confuse activity with action.
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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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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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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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