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Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older. Gertrude Stein
You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. Jimi Hendrix
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough..."
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it. Eric Clapton
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the..."
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others. Simone de Beauvoir
Billy Graham quote: "Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears she for..."
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears she for others are a sign of strength. Billy Graham
To be loved for what one is, that is thegreatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space."Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely? Madeleine L'Engle
She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. You could not help but be aware of the wild passage of blood on the other side of its wall, veins, capillaries, sweat glands, tiny factories in the throes of complicated manufacture. [He] looked at the eyes and, knowing how eyes worked, was astonished, not for the first time, at the infinite complexity of Creation, wondering how this thing, this instrument for seeing, could transmit so clearly... Peter Carey
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others. Jose Rizal
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you..."
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be... Elizabeth Smart
Diane Keaton quote: "That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love..."
That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful. Diane Keaton
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly. John Updike
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell. Laurie Lee

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