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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,…
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After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.
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If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.
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There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just…
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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things…
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When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you…
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You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In…
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The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.
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When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We…
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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