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Justin Bieber quote: "But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's..."
But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it Justin Bieber
She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release. Peter Straub
There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships. Marianne Williamson
It is significant ..... that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers? James Hilton
Chris Colfer quote: "My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one..."
My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first. Chris Colfer
The time he'd cheated on Syl, Syl had seen through him, broken off their engagement, and cheated on him with Charles, which had fried his ass possibly worse than any single other ass frying he'd ever had, in a life that, it recently seemed, was simply a series of escalating ass fries. George Saunders
Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin Orson Scott Card
Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. C. S. Lewis
Charles Dickens quote: "I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and..."
I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction... Charles Dickens
An absence of mistrust is not enough; there must be a weariness of mistrusting, and, as it were, courage must be impatient with the hazards of life. You are unconsciously bored by living without loving, and convinced in spite of yourself by the examples of others. You have overcome all life's fears, and are no longer content with the gloomy happiness which pride affords: you have conceived an ideal without knowing it. Stendhal
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "It would sound like a dream,” said Billy. “Other people’s..."
It would sound like a dream,” said Billy. “Other people’s dreams aren’t very interesting usually. Kurt Vonnegut
But to guide nations in the way of Truth. By saving Doctrine, and from error lead. To know, and knowing worship God aright, Is yet more knightly, this attracts the Soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part, That other o'er the body only reigns, And oft by force, which to a generous mindso reigning can be no sincere delight. John Milton
What place is this,” Drizzt asked the cat quietly, “that I call home? These are my people, by skin and by heritage, but I am no kin to them. They are lost and ever will be. “How many others are like me, I wonder?” Drizzt whispered, taking one final look. “Doomed souls, as was Zaknafein, poor Zak. I do this for him, Guenhwyvar; I leave as he could not, His life has been my lesion, a dark scroll etched by the heavy price exacted by Matron Malice’s evil promises. “Goodbye, Zack!” he cried, his... R. A. Salvatore
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. John Locke
Heraclitus quote: "You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters..."
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. Heraclitus

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