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In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that. Neil Gaiman
Emily Bronte quote: "&& wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers,..."
&& wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Emily Bronte
You said you survived, Anna, but you didn't. You triumphed. Everything about you is a testament to courage and strength."When she stared at him, obviously stunned, he smiled a little. "You didn't get either from a social worker or a counselor. They just helped you figure out how to use it. I figure you got it from your mother. She must have been a hell of a woman."She was," Anna murmured, near tears again."So are you. Nora Roberts
It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know. Nick Hornby
But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion. So pleasant that pleasant was not the word. Samuel Beckett
Chaim Potok quote: "It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk."
It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk. Chaim Potok
Mark Van Doren quote: "It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly."
It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly. Mark Van Doren
Kids must spend half their lives throwing things at the ducks in Regent's Park. How come he managed to pick a duck that pathetic? Nick Hornby
But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did. Ayn Rand
It made the kids at camp much more enthusiastic and cooperative when they had ego goals to fulfill, I'm sure, but ultimately that kind of motivation is destructive. Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Now we're paying the price. When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other... Robert M. Pirsig
He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way." - Odd Thomas - "Odd Hours by Dean Koontz pg 239 chapter 30 Dean Koontz
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. Carol Shields
We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye. Cheryl Strayed
Suzanne Collins quote: "Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him!..."
Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand! Suzanne Collins
Pablo Picasso quote: "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso

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