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She had smiled her way through the births and had offered the new mothers the support and the medical care that they needed, but the moment she’d sent them on their way, cutting that last umbilical cord between hospital and home, Lacy knew she was giving them the wrong advice. Instead of easy platitudes like Let them eat when they want to eat and You can’t hold a baby too much, she should have been telling them the truth: This child you’ve been waiting for is not who you imagine him to be.... Jodi Picoult
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh. J. K. Rowling
We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to standoutside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be. Ursula K. Le Guin
Cat Stevens quote: "To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are."
To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are. Cat Stevens
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are. Cat Stevens
Abraham Maslow quote: "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of..."
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Abraham Maslow
Gabriel Heatter quote: "If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a..."
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host. Gabriel Heatter
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it. Leo Buscaglia
Jeffery Deaver quote: "Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have..."
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have. Jeffery Deaver
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. Dale Carnegie
I see you have the advantage of me,' he said. 'Very well. I'll make it as brief as I can. I'll tell you the plain facts and I only hope you won't draw the wrong conclusions from them. George Rattery had been making advances to my wife for some time. She was amused, intrigued, gratified by it - any woman might be, you know; George was a handsome brute, in his way. She may even have carried on a harmless flirtation with him. I did not remonstrate with her: if one is afraid to trust one's... C. Day Lewis
Frank Sinatra quote: "For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love..."
For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you. Frank Sinatra
For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever. At length I wandered towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify. We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition. I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not. Penelope Lively
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it. Alan Vega

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