If there's anything i can feel, that's to the fact that i will grow even when i fall. Life is too simple to be taken too serious for me. #MyDefinition
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BETA METANI' MARASHI One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and... JEANNE D'ARC Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in... LOUIS L'AMOUR Alone, you're vastly outnumbered; but in the company of another, by some weird miracle of human math... CHARLES D'AMBROSIO Grace changes us and change is painful". FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t... FLANNERY O'CONNOR People are more than just the way they look. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every... MADELEINE L'ENGLE I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at... EUGENE O'NEILL I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love. FRANK O'HARA Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers. BILL O'REILLY Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo... ERICA O'ROURKE I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the r... STEWART O'NAN Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when peop... IBN MAS'UD The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ... STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat... TAWNI O'DELL