Hilary Swank  - Quotes

 I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there 

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Jason Mraz  - Quotes

 Everything is perfect.

Everything is fine.

The rules of life are made up.

The rules only exist in your mind.

Of course there may be courtesies

And closures and laws to abide,

But the zeal with which you play

Relies on where YOU draw the line
 

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Marvin Gaye  - Quotes

 If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. 

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Bonnie Hunt  - Quotes

 Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside. 

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Arthur Conan Doyle  - Quotes

 ...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards. 

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Donald Miller  - Quotes

 I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

 

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Mark Helprin  - Quotes

 their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. 

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Baz Luhrmann  - Quotes

 Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not

understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.

But trust me, in 20 years you
 

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Dante Alighieri  - Quotes

 Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation

echoed throughout the starless air of Hell;

at first these sounds resounding made me weep:



tongues confused, a language strained in anguish

with cadences of anger, shrill outcries

and raucous groans that joined with sounds of hands,

raising a whirling storm that turns itself

forever through that air of endless black,

like grains of sand swirling when a whirlwind blows.



And I, in the midst of all this circling horror,

began,
 

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Jodi Picoult  - Quotes

 That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there.

That we made mistakes.

I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
 

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Muriel Barbery  - Quotes

 It's all well and good to have profound thoughts on a regular basis, but I think it's not enough. Well, I mean: I'm going to commit suicide and set the house on fire in a few months; obviously I can't assume I have time at my disposal, therefore I have to do something substantial with the little I do have. And above all, I've set myself a little challenge: if you commit suicide, you have to be sure of what you're doing and not burn the house down for nothing. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb. 

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Donald Miller  - Quotes

 I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze. 

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Victor Hugo  - Quotes

 The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. 

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Abigail Adams  - Quotes

 My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. 

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Brian Tracy  - Quotes

 You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. 

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