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"My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found."

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

"Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life."

"I made a big mistake, and I didn't use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn't make myself any better because of it.And that's not okay with me."

"Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside the precincts of the damned, except in the fevered fantasies of a raving paranoid psychopath."

"Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes."

"Yes, all you need do is to change your orientation and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that He can make you whole, change your status, and add value to your destiny."

"Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?"

"Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!"

"Realistic and unrealistic expectations will be placed on you, demands will be made, fair and unfair judgment will be passed. Your growing leadership intelligence should reflect in your objective response or reaction to these challenges " remember more eyes than you can see are watching you. Know when it is prudent to make a comment, to set the record straight or just not comment. Decide which invitations to accept and which ones to send a representative or to turn down. Continuously reflecting on your mission, beliefs and values will make this process more objective."

"Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!"

"It's not about fancy literary prizes. It's not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that's all."

"I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her."


"A mistake isn't a mistake unless it can't be put right."

"Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better."

"How do I have productive days with minimum drama? Simple, I mind my own business."

"I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?"

"Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper."

"You and I may have never met, but I already know so much of what you want: to be happy and feel valued. We all want love, connection, respect, confidence, health, vitality, passion, kindness, and success."

"How you accessorize your wardrobe can transform the plainest outfit into a dazzling, unforgettable impression. It can be the mark of your own unique style, an extra splash of fashion, or an expression of your mood."


"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."

"Don't wait, just sweat."

"A leaf does not resist the breeze. A goose does not resist the urge to fly down south. Is this not happiness? Is this not freedom? To access this incredible state, we need only one thing: Trust. Trust that, when you are not holding yourself together so tightly, you will not fall apart. Trust that it is more important to fulfill your authentic desires than listen to your fears. Trust that your intuition is leading you somewhere. Trust that the flow of life contains you, is bigger than you, and will take care of you - if you let it."

"Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul."


"I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die."

"We're all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we'd probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past " life's grand kaleidoscope " to help us find our way forward."


"I asked Patrick if he felt sad that he had to keep it a secret, and Patrick just said that he wasn't sad because at least now, Brad doesn't have to get drunk or stoned to make love."


"I love you butdon't know what todo."

"The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own."

"We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us."

"Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose."

"Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will."

"It is a mistake," LabruyA re tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune."


"Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity."

"Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now."
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