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No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure. Deepak Chopra
Stephen King quote: "A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and..."
A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain Stephen King
The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age. Jane Austen
Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the... Steig Larsson
Victor Hugo quote: "If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will..."
If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child. Victor Hugo
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick. Mark Twain
I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music Haruki Murakami
Margaret Atwood quote: "You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets,..."
You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he'd thought much about them at the time. Margaret Atwood
Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who or what is ABOVE, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Those other things will be... Aiden Wilson Tozer
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury John Mills
You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of cheese. You don't do crosswords, do you, Mr. Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end. I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discovery concerning the blueness of cheese that will never come to a conclusion. Graham Greene
Ann Patchett quote: "She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the..."
She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room. Ann Patchett
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their..."
Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. Louisa May Alcott
Lao Tzu quote: "How could a decent person ever rejoice in victory and delight..."
How could a decent person ever rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men Lao Tzu
The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue. Thomas Hardy

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