Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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Be a voice not an echo.

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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

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Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love. ― Mandy Hale

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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Never let people who are more unhappy than you tell you how to live your life. ― Adam Smith

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The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. - Paulo Coelho

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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. ― Chuck Palahniuk

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