Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. ― Epictetus

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. ― Viktor E. Frankl

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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? ― Markus Zusak

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Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it. ― Jeanette Winterson

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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

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