"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Life, Contrast, History, Experience

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

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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

Personal Development

"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Dream, Universe, Truth

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"Don't ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Change, Choice, Power, Truth

"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom, Power

"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Power

"Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Truth, Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Inspirational, Power, Determination, Truth

"My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal."

Shawn Johnson, American Athlete

Life,

"Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Life, Truth, Happiness, Regret

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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."

Forgiveness, Memory, Time, Acceptance

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

Nature, Light, March, Summer, Sun

"Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day."

Reality, Death, Compassion, Humanity, Suffering

"Always the way!" muttered the Jew to himself as he turned homewards. "The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some long-forgotten feeling; and the best of them is, that it never lasts. Ha! ha!"

Emotion, Memory, Feeling, Woman

"When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people."

Humor, People, Man

"To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect."

Reflection, History, Entertainment, Novelty, Past

"But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds."

Morality, Reading, Fraud, Truth

"My dear Copperfield, he replied. "To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence, said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, "the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!"

Creativity, Imagination, Law, Detail, Expression

"A word in earnest is as good as a speech."

Communication, Word, Speech, Meaning

"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."

Acceptance, Success, Failure, Self, Identity