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Bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people, because if it was the other way around good people would become bad and bad people would become good. ↗

— Brittany Hamilton

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I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make. ↗

— James Patterson

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Do you think it will always be this way?" "What?" "I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?" I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. "I don't know," I said. "Tomorrow. ↗

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#boredom #cope #coping #difficuties #fear

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. ↗

— Aristotle

#habit #virtue #life

Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#life #live #moment #now #past

And now, tonight, we're living through the bitter part, or maybe the painful, burning part. But more sweetness will come, sooner or later. Trust that it will. ↗

— Laura Resau

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People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard" or poke at a book because it's "romance" or "genre fiction" and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it... well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#author #book #book-writing #edit #genre-fiction

And really–I would rather suck truck fumes than deal with this sort of shit forever. Mom says that Nader is a loser who will grow up to be a loser and that I'll understand when I'm forty. But I want to understand now. ↗

— A.S. King

#life #life

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#jacqueline-patricks #life-lessons #maturity #perscpective #life