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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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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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You only live once. But if you live your life right, once can mean everything! ↗

— Lorii Myers

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I was trying to help... The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

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Life is a constant balancing act, and keeping your balance is not always possible. The better you prepare yourself, the better your chances of regaining your balance when you lose it. ↗

— Walter C. Conner

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No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country, but I don't. Well, maybe I can get the family to a park two times a week, and out to the country once every two weeks. Maybe I have to send my child to a not-so-good school. Well, maybe we can read one or two good books together aloud. If you can't give them everything, give them something. ↗

— Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

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There is more to life than just living. ↗

— Ashok Kallarakkal

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Din orice situatie exista o iesire ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

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Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren't living. ↗

— Thurman P. Banks Jr.

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