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Where the heart is the mind works best.

Louisa May Alcott

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Aspiration Beautiful Leadership Reach See Sunshine Try
It takes two flints to make a fire.
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Advice Fire One Liner
I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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Consistency Deal Experience Explanation Greatness Myself Observation Pretend Remember See Wisdom
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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Accident Brave Design Fear Kill Mad Possession Weapon
I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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Adventure Inspirational Myself One Liner Travel
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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Afraid Heaven Home Leaving Myself Run Sick
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Carry Easy End Love
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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Book Happiness Life Myself Necessary Pay People Reading Reality Sin Willing
The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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Better Hard Lose Lost Man Rule Scars Soul Teach Yourself
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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Choice Direction Emotion Learning Pain Service
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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Beautiful Happiness Humble Life Love Power
Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Employement Time Understand Worth
Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Marriage Oneself Responsibility Right
Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Friendship Home Love Magic Relationship Story
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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Blessing Flower Fragrance Generosity Growth Love Miracle
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Bloom Life Love Precious

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