I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it... Don't allow his anger to become your anger.
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Bohdi Sanders
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's...
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Zora Neale Hurston
More Quotes By Peter De Vries
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would like to dismantle the universe star by star, like a treeful of rotten fruit. Nor do I believe in progress. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>A...
Stein resented the sedative power of religion, or rather the repose available to those blissfully ignorant that the medicament was a fictitious blank. In this exile from peace of mind to which his reason doomed him, he was like an insomniac driven to awaken sleepers...
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
