"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."

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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

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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?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!"

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

"Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!"

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"He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet."

"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."

"Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow."

"Variety is the soul of pleasure."

"One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on."

"Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude."

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand."

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."

"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."