And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that...
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C. Joybell C.
I've been in love before, it's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>You think...
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Paulo Coelho
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
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Roy T. Bennett
[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
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Jenny Oconnell
Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Jess Walter
We live in a world of banal miracles.
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell.
He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
