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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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Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'
— George Robinson
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What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to…
— Beverly Engel
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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny…
— Tori Amos
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You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
— Anne Hathaway
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Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.
— Martina Navratilova
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Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself.…
— Jane Porter
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Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.
— Clement of Alexandria
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The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may…
— Marshall Field
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Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what…
— Susan Jane Gilman
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A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And…
— Molly Harper
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