"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."

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"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."

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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

"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

Life, Thought, End, Emotion

"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

Life, Spirit, Word

"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

Life, Magic, Experience, Majesty

"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

Life, Reflection, Want, Be, See

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

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Life, Questions, Answers, Ask, Hear

"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

Life, Moment, Count, Journey

"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

Life, Opinion, Others, Gauge, Goal

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"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."

Life

"It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot."

Nation

"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."

Despair

"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."

Life

"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."

Life

"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"

Race

"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

Poetry

"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."

Change

"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."

Language

"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

History