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"Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing."

"Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence."

"We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action."

"Everyone is looking for approval and appreciation even when they ask for criticism."

"Passion will warm you for days, infatuation will warm you for months, but love will set you on fire for a lifetime."

"Love makes the world go round, but sometimes you spin so much you end up dizzy."
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"The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world."

"I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world."

"Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them."

"Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help."

"I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible."

"But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind."

"Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you."

"You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind."
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