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 FITZGERALDNo matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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