Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. ― Doris Mortman

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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. ― Epicurus

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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

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A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

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Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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You Don’t Tell Me Things, Joel. I’m An Open Book. I Tell You Everything, Every Damn, Embarrassing Thing. - Clementine To Joel

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For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.

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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. ― Immanuel Kant

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