"Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing."

Reflection, Truth, Change, Past

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"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Reflection, Love, Will

"I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Reflection, Safety, Memory, Time

"What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves - our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Reflection, Imagination, Identity, Perception, Family

"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Reflection, Man

"Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Reflection, Time, Memory, Sorrow, Emotion

"What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?"

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Reflection, Memory, Experience, Conflict

"[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Reflection, Stillness, Evolution, Patience, Calm

"What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Reflection, Life, Love, Courage, Mistake

"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Reflection, Action, Thinking, Awareness

"My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots."

David Levithan, American Author

Reflection, Mistake, Imperfection, Humor

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"This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?"

Courage

"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."

Progress

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

Argument

"Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea."

Perspective

"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

Imagination

"Don't dare try to be heroes."

Heroism

"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

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"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

"I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more."

"What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves - our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies."

"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

"Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond."

"What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?"

"[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself."

"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."

"My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots."

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"This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?"

"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."

"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."

"Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea."

"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

"Don't dare try to be heroes."

"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

"Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could."

"Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will."

"Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton."