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"We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
"I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending."
"And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well."
"She is so secure in her beautifully imperfect self that she would welcome you with open arms, no judgment, and complete acceptance."
"We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking."
"We can't always know why things happen the way they happen, or why a person makes the choices they do. Knowing why isn't necessary to move forward, unless we make it so.You may never find out why. Don't let that keep you from moving on with your life."
"It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability."
"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."
"I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence."
"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance."
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"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."
"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."
"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."
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