Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. ― Jodi Picoult

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Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. ― Alan Moore, Watchmen

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Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ― Lao Tzu

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ― Corrie ten Boom

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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific. ― Lily Tomlin

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If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

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I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles. ― Steve Maraboli

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