"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

Mary Catherine Bateson, American Scientist

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

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"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

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"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

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