Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
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