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The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your… — Thomas Merton
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. — Sydney Smith
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin â€“ the deskâ€™s too big, the… — Robert Harris
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange… — Jeanette Winterson
And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that… — Anne Rice
Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it" George Cooper — Tamora Pierce
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it… — Christopher Hitchens
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other peopleâ€¦â€¦.. — Chuck Palahniuk
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the… — Soren Kierkegaard
So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are… — D. H. Lawrence
Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible. — Wayne Dyer
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born… — Anne Lamott
Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I… — Zadie Smith
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely… — Stephen King
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us. — Paulo Coelho
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. — Henry Ford
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek… — Stephen Covey
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and… — M. Scott Peck

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