For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? ― Joyce Carol Oates

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur. — Leo Tolstoy.

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True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach

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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

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I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don't give up. _ Marjorie Liu

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Christmas Eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams. – Kim Gannon and Walter Kent

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Do what is true to your soul. — Malini Saba

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No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams. ― Roy T. Bennett

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The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself. ― Benjamin Franklin

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When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. ― Nelson Mandela

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