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If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, and you must not waste any of it but what you do have will be of the most excellent quality. For it will accumulate, and the accumulation will all go to quality. And the things for which you are to be grateful are the bitternesses you have known. If you have had it in mind ever to give way to bursts of gratitude for this air that comes from off the salt sea, for that line of pearls and violets that you see just above the horizon, for the health of your body, for the sleep that comes to you at the close of the day, for any of those things, then get rid of the idea at once. Those things are quite well, but they are not really given to you. They are merely placed where any one can reach them with little effort. The kind fates don't care whether you get them or not. Their responsibility ends when they leave them there. But the bitternesses they give to each person separately. They give you yours, Mary MacLane, for your very own. Don't say they never think of you. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#fates #gratitude #life

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#kisses #kissing #life

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

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Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #hodge #life

أعرف اليوم ...وبأن الحياة لئيمة , ليئمة جداً مع الأذكياء.. وكأنها تعاقبهم على محاولتهم لفهمها ولسبر أغوارها! تعاقب الحياة الأذكياء والباحثين عن أسرارها فقط.. لاتقسو الحياء على غيرهم.. تحنو هي على كل البسطاء والسطحيين, تترفهم, تدللّهم.. ولا ترفض لهم طلباً أبداً لأنهم لم يجرؤا يوماً عليها.. أعتقد اليوم بأن الحياة قد وضعتني نصب عينيها! أصبحت ممن تتلذذ بتعذيبهم.. ترفعني الحياة حتى آخر حدود السماء.. ومن ثم توقعني أرضاً لتضحك شامتةً وبكل دناءة.. ↗

— أثير عبدالله النشمي

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A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far. ↗

— Aron Ralston

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There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#truth-of-life #life

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. ↗

— Rick Warren

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