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I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother's, much as the course of a ball on the billiard table is merely the continuation of the player's arm movement. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#chinese-philosopher #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #wise #business

Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#life #mind #business

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#goals #inspiritional #life-lessons #life

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#lifestyle #living #life

There is magic in all life. ↗

— Nadia Scrieva

#magic #life

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#discipline #emotional #humiliation #life #paralyzing

One thinks the worst even while clinging to hopes for the best. ↗

— Robert Dykstra

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In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective. ↗

— Phil Callaway

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