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"Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that what had been granted her she had not desired. So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him."
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"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
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"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
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"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
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"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
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"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."
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"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
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"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
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"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
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"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."
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"In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything."
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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
Business
"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."
Age
"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
Success
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
Appearance
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
World
"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Death
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."
People
"The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men."
Art
"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
Decision-Making
"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
War
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