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This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make. ↗

— Cammie McGovern

#sacrifices #life

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. ↗

— James Brown

#most #one thing #our #problems #solve

My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War. ↗

— Meg Cabot

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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#the-woman-who-died-a-lot #thursday-next #life

It’s about getting to a point in your life where you’re ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself. ↗

— Jared Leto

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Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it. ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#hard-times #life #the-way-of-life #tough #life

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#every #important #important things #life #most

Luck ran out, but smart was for life. ↗

— John Connolly

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But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you an orphan. If you choose to take my life as a payment for theirs, you will be within your rights and no vampire will hold it against you. Pass judgment on me, Gavner Purl, and let your hand rise or fall as destiny decides it must." -Larten Crepsley ↗

— Darren Shan

#larten-crepsely #palace-of-the-damned #vampires #life

The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE ↗

— Brendon Burchard

#the-charge #life