Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. ― Janet Evanovich

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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon. ― W.C. Fields

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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

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Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. ― Douglas Coupland

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

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Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than Perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic even as you take your very next breath.

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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. — Joe Paterno

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