"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."

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"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."

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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."

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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?"

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

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"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

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

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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."

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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?"

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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."

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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