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“At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.”

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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the…

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“We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.”

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My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess.…

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“Life’s about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It’s about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don’t want to be happy. I know I won’t live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer.…

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“Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission”

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“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't think of any other word for it. I was thinking about the beach poem again, and I started to feel that I was being looked after, that everything was OK. It was strange: if there was…

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“In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”

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“There’s life in his face again. It occurs to me that this is the best thing I could have done, it’s actually a great way to leave, because it’s giving Gavin the message that we haven’t been defeated, we are up for it, we’re young, we’re in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence.…

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“It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.”

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I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"…

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While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

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It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a…

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When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were…

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As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40.

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Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

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I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that…

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Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True…

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