His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated. ― Emily Giffin

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Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. ― Dave Eggers

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People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic! ― Dylan Moran

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Let us keep enough money to enjoy each breath we take, but definitely not too much, if we don’t want to spoil the fragrance of our dreams and the poem of life. ― Erik Pevernagie

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Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it. ― Katie Kacvinsky

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You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go. ― Tony Kushner

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That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. ― Philip Pullman

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Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. ― Steve Maraboli

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But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. ― Mitch Albom

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

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