Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
PAT CONROYThe great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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Good writing … involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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