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Mark Twain quote: "Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL..."
Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied. Mark Twain
They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. Robert Cormier
If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I'm going to kill myself, because I won't know what else to do Stephen King
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) met Diogenes. The powerful Alexander, being solicitous of the old philosopher, asked what, if anything he could do for him. Diogenes replied, "DO NOT DEPRIVE ME FROM WHAT YOU CANNOT PROVIDE" As Alexander took his leave, he said "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. Diogenes
Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation. Henri Nouwen
nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself and it will be easy enough to fail so very easily but don’t, don’t, don’t. just watch them. listen to them. do you want to be like that? a faceless, mindless, heartless being? do you want to experience death before death? nobody can save... Charles Bukowski
When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself? Paulo Coelho
In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year.' She looked at us all radiantly. 'Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.' 'We ought to plan something,' yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed. 'All right,' said Daisy. 'What'll we plan?' She turned to me helplessly. 'What do people plan? F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought? No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. John Steinbeck
Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over. Jose Saramago
Peter Shaffer quote: "I cannot accept merely...I do not do anything merely."
I cannot accept merely...I do not do anything merely. Peter Shaffer
Jane Austen quote: "I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what..."
I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right. Jane Austen
But this lump does not absolve me, because I got it through heedlessness, not though courage. I run my tongue over my lip and what do I do? I write. But bad literature brings no redemption. Umberto Eco
Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf."Sometimes I do. It probably has something to do with the way you CAN'T TALK. Stephenie Meyer
Mark Haddon quote: "I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have..."
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. Mark Haddon

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