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Henry James quote: "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. Henry James
Khalil Gibran quote: "And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if..."
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Khalil Gibran
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do. Stephen King
Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days. Doug Coupland
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage...As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage Orson Scott Card
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like..."
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop. Sue Monk Kidd
Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone. William Congreve
Henrik Ibsen quote: "Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I..."
Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend. Peter Stockmann: Almost—yes! Henrik Ibsen
What? You don't think he's cute?"I didn't really notice."How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief. Nicholas Sparks
An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter. C. S. Lewis
no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people. Louisa May Alcott
We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for. Orson Scott Card
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice. Hans Urs von Balthasar
That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence. Quentin Tarantino
When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over. J. K. Rowling

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