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Reflective Quotes
"The past is a foreign country they do things differently there."
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
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"End of a matter is better than its beginning."
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"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
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"The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want it won't satisfy."
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"We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves."
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"If you have arthritis calmly say I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road."
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"I believe books are life's best gifts, as they allow us to venture into worlds we never thought existed. Giving us a chance to be someone different, giving us the chance to dawdle in the words - And feel free!"
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"For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart,' is really bad advice."
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"I'd rather live a life I truly love by spending my time doing things I love and have that be my only life rather than devote myself to someone who can't be proven exists at all that wants our time and our love more than our virtues simply just so I can live again."
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"Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you."
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"We as human being do dream & do expect a lot for what we are not entitled but there comes a phase when we get what we have never expected or dreamt of.... So, Accept every little thing that life offers cause might be this is what we deserve ......."
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"Life is a handful of short stories pretending to be a novel."
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"Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job."
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"I saw the tears of the oppressed-and they have no comforter;power was on the side of their oppressors-and they have no comforter.And I declared that the dead,who had already died,are happier than the living,who are still alive.But better than bothis the one who has never been born,who has not seen the evilthat is done under the sun."
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"To excel in life, one must become conscious that the way lived is not the only way of living."
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"It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself."
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"Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?"
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"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
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"Make a u-turn, when you see you have traveled on the wrong path."
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"The other night while lying on a couch I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!"
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"The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life."
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"Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing."
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"If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape."
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