When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
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Paulo Coelho
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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David Nicholls
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
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Haruki Murakami
Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult...
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Nicholas Sparks
More Quotes By Paul Fussell
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting–the way it offers no provision for transmitting news like “I have lost my left leg” or “I have been admitted into hospital wounded and do not expect to recover.” Because it provided no...
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.
