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In the end, just three things matter:

How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go


Jack Kornfield

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these things matter most:
How well did you love?
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I looked at her not knowing how t...
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"Okay."
"One, are you sitting dow...
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AMIE KAUFMAN How many of us suffered to death?
How many of them gained more wealth?

How many of u...
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HARSHA BHOGLE I like how you remember things,’ I say.
She looks at me. ‘Well, we have to. We have to rem...
ISAAC MARION Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"
That three-headed dogs prefer red r...
RICK RIORDAN It's the oasis," said the camel driver.
"Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked....
PAULO COELHO Put up in a place
where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T

W...
PIET HEIN I have something to tell you."

"How, you have something to tell me?"

"You have...
STEVEN BRUST How little we understand
of the gifts we have been given
or the shape of the path
we ...
HARLEY KING Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too.
Like your e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Yes, we will all have cracks —
but that is how we break
without falling apart.
TIMOTHY JOSHUA How are we going to get out of here?"
"Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan."
"...
DEREK LANDY BOTTOM
There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE most importantly love
like it's the only thing you know how
at the end of the day all this...
RUPI KAUR Where has God gone?” [the madman asked] “I shall tell you. We
have killed him – you and I...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you have any idea how attractive you are?
Well, I'm better than roseanne Barr, I suppose.
LUCY ROBINSON Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew ...
SOPHOCLES Sometimes, when I am sad,
I am not sad for myself.
I am sad for the world,
I am sad ...
WORDIONS Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of
antiquarian books.
'Imp...
JASPER FFORDE It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE At our age the imagination
across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stan...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The greatest thinkers
have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI It doesn't matter
how far you go;
I will love you.
Always.
MAMORU SUZUKI When the dust settles, when the admirers have left, you will have known, that it was always about ag...
DEEPAK S. HIWALE How long have you been with Raphael?”
“You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman.”
NALINI SINGH I know too well how
good-bye can steal more than just the future.
TALIA VANCE ROSE: I love you, Jack.

JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. ...
JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you
don't blame the lettuce. You look for re...
THICH NHAT HANH Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?"

"Here," Bethany said, responding to the ...
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Of everything I have seen,
it's you I want to go on seeing:
of everything I've touched, ...
PABLO NERUDA i hope that
whoever you are
wherever you are
and no matter how
you are feeling SANOBER KHAN How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met...
BRET EASTON ELLIS You loved her," Isobel said.

"Worshipped," Scrimshaw corrected. "But more ludicrou...
KELLY CREAGH How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big ...
RICK RIORDAN what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
A memory remains just a tiny spark.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS There's no such things as sweet as dream
Well maybe if you live on it
But you could live s...
JOSHUA NATAD I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth...
BIL KEANE If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.

That's how love works. It...
ROB BELL Nostalgia"

How often we use this word reminiscing about the past - our childhood, school ...
SANHITA BARUAH I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford
DOUGLAS ADAMS Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin...
PETER KREEFT In the very end,
all we have left
to atone for
our faults
are words.
KAMAND KOJOURI You just like to piss me off,” Jack said.
“Well, there’s that. On the other hand, we’ll...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN When we feel the clown,
when we have been played,
if we have lived by heart,
acted...
TOM ALTHOUSE Well, why would you create something that had the power to hurt You? Or any of Your creatures? Why d...
LEV GROSSMAN What was the self-sacrifice?"
I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair ...
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I keep trying to die, but they won't let me.
Well, you can't have ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Why We Tell Stories

I
Because we used to have leaves
and on damp days ...
LISEL MUELLER There be three gentle and goodlie things,
To be here,
To be together,
And to think w...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Everyone always thinks they're the good guys,' said Ruby.
'Yes they do,' said LB. 'But happily ...
LAUREN CHILD WHAT DADDY WOULD HAVE DONE

First he would have listened intently which one could always t...
URSULA DENISE WALKER Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) when we were kids
laying around the lawn
on our
bellies

we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.”
“Don’t make me angry-kiss you.”
“Give m...
RAINBOW ROWELL We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the pla...
DON HENLEY Three most important questions for a happy life:
How can I help?
How can I love?
Ho...
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JENNY HAN Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
No, Olivia, just one."
How about four?"
Tw...
IAN FALCONER We have a weight to carry
and a distance we must go.
We have a weight to carry,
a des...
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PLEASEFINDTHIS At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we ha...
MOTHER TERESA Have you thought of an ending?"
"Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant."
"Oh, that...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And if you have a minute, why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could...
BIL KEANE Truth

And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk)
Well, I do have several others we ca...
SHERRILYN KENYON Look at
how deeply flawed
we are

and yet
capable of loving
so perfec...
SANOBER KHAN SNEAK AROUND IN LIFE
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TIP TOE
THE SPIRITUAL WOOD FLOORS CREAK
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER So before we end and then begin
We'll drink a toast to how it's been
A few more hours to b...
BILLY JOEL What about San Francisco?"
"What about it?"
"Did you like it?"
She shrugged. "It was ...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN How do we exorcise one of the Jinn?"

He shrugged. "You got Yellow Pages?"
"Seriousl...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Titus, have you ever had your heart broken?”

“Oh, son. How could you ask a man who us...
ZACK LOVE The More Loving One

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all ...
W.H. AUDEN ... Melissa. Where are you planning to go?" His voice was nasally, shit, he knew I had no idea where...
MERCY CORTEZ You ask me why I don't speak
Not a word at will
But write so much worth well over a mill'<...
CRISS JAMI You
are the poem
I never knew
how to write
and this life
is the story
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON If I'm a bad person, you don't like me
Well I guess I'll make my own way
It's a circle
HAYLEY WILLIAMS Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an ey...
RICK RIORDAN When I think of how many people in this world have it worse
than I do, I realize just how bles...
SHANNAN LEA That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I wen...
MARY OLIVER The center will hold.”

“How do you know?”

“Because we are the...
RICHELLE MEAD No matter how close, you are always too far
My eyes are drawn everywhere you are.

I...
CORA CARMACK Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light!
In our dark moments we cry; let there be ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and ev...
HOWARD TAYLER You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you."
"We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam repli...
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How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How t...
MATT HAIG Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius)
Eight. (Tabitha)
Eight? (Valerius)
What...
SHERRILYN KENYON Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to kn...
DR. SEUSS Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.

Algerno...
OSCAR WILDE Scientists have been arguing the question 'how precisely do we need to
measure dark energy in o...
ERIC LINDER We should have learned by now not to be surprised by kittypets."

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JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ...
JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
JACK STRAW It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio...
JACK STEINBERGER I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio...
JACK STEINBERGER In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer...
JACK STEINBERGER I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to...
JACK STEINBERGER I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
JACK STEINBERGER It's great that people are interested in Mars.
JACK SCHMITT But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base ...
JACK SCHMITT It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Cany...
JACK SCHMITT My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
JACK SCALIA There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
JACK SCALIA I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that ser...
JACK SCALIA I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
JACK SCALIA You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
JACK SCALIA But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
JACK SCALIA Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ...
JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
JACK SCALIA I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent ...
JACK REYNOR I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor c...
JACK REYNOR With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play...
JACK REYNOR As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
JACK REYNOR I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
JACK REYNOR If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain p...
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