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"Life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know."
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"Don't be a victim of circumstances. Choose victory by gracious endurance."

"Never underestimate the grace of bouncing back from a fallen heart."

"A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up."

"I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times."

"In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that."

"Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge?Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration."

"In the long run one gets used to anything."

"Never despair but if you do work on in despair."

"Life is, at times, tough...And all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it."

"Let it rain on some days, Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through."
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"Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!"

"I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self."

"One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop."

"If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it."

"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."

"You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!"

"We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop."

"The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears."

"Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down on me almost as much as the students."

"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
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