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"We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
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"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."

"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."

"Accept yourself in a way you are created."

"You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you."

"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."

"Life is all I have, it is enough!"

"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."

"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."

"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."

"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
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"It is a sound like loneliness-enough to let you know you're there, but not enough to fill you with life."

"I told her about the time that I got so tired of you stealing the sheets that in my sleep-weary logic I decided that the thing to do was to tie them around my legs, knot and all, and how, when you attempted to steal them that night, you ended up yanking me into you, and I was so startled that I sprang up, tripped, and was nearly concussed."

"So what's your story? Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?"Yeah. Everybody has at least one."

"When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us."

"I hate the phrase 'more than friends'," Joni told me one night not long ago. "It's such nonsense. When I'm going out with someone, we're not 'more than friends' - most of the time, we're not even friends. 'More than friends' makes no sense. Look at us. There's nothing more than us."

"They have left the first stage of romance-the rhapsody of us. Where everything is you-me or me-you or a giddily tentative we. Now him and her are asserting themselves, each given a private, pensive depth. Within the rhapsody of us, Elijah could think, I don't really know you, but I will. Now he is not so sure."
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