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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. — Oscar Wilde

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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. — Vince Lombardi

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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. ― Hermann Hesse

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If you can't get a miracle, become one.

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. — Nelson Mandela

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Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives. - Jim Rohn

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