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In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall part with our regrets When the tie no longer binds. ↗

— Robin Hobb

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No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

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You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness. ↗

— Katie McGarry

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Trifles make the sum of life. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw--I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I lov'd, I loved alone. Then--in my childhood--in the dawn Of a most stormy life--was drawn From ev'ry depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still: From the torrent, or the fountain, From the red cliff of the mountain, From the sun that 'round me roll'd In its autumn tint of gold-- From the lightning in the sky As it pass'd me flying by-- From the thunder and the storm, And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

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But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

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The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

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