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I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early ↗

— Amanda Foreman

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Resistance is common to the unusual. ↗

— Toba Beta

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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. ↗

— George Eliot

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Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.' Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.' You risked your life.' But I didn't even think about that! I was only thinking of-' He interrupted her,smiling. 'That's all that brave means-not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. So did I. ↗

— Lois Lowry

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True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#night-star #life

let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway. ↗

— Frank Peretti

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...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. ↗

— Ian Fleming

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#writing #life