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SARA BAUME There really isn't much wrong with me,' I say, 'it's just that, well, I'm not like other people; I d...
SARA BAUME I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other...
SARA BAUME I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
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MARIA ERVING
for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already... ELIZABETH GILBERT Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN
I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ... C. JOYBELL C. I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on farawa...
SARA BAUME And yet, here I am. Perceiving everything that is wonderful to be proportionately difficult; everyth...
SARA BAUME Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it ...
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And it’s time you stop dickering around and accept yourself a suit.” Penelope’s eyes went wide... SARAH MACLEAN
The world doesn’t need more people playing small. It’s time to stop hiding out and start steppin... T. HARV EKER
My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am a... ANTHONY HOPKINS
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never a...
SARA BAUME I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.
SARA BAUME How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career out of...
SARA BAUME The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored cl...
SARA BAUME Did it do me any good, early in life, to believe so many things which were not true? Or did it damag...
SARA BAUME
Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that whi... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I know who I am and what I am made of, I do not need your acceptance to identify my character…I ha...
N. S. COLE I always say that anybody who’s single ― like Sara ― their love is the most intense love. The ...
TEGAN QUIN Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move th...
JOHN DAVIS
A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're en... LISA KLEYPAS
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ
I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you.... CHRISTINE FEEHAN
My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I ju... DAVID BLUNKETT Who am I kidding? This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s my life.
ZOE CRUZ How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I won’t do anything Sara; this is not me trying to get into your pants, or to rekindle what we had...
NICOLE KIEFER
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. RAY BRADBURY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up... ROBERT FROST
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that...
SARA BAUME I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than ever...
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The more I can accept the fact that change is moving all the time, and that the change I am experien... SHARON WEIL We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into...
MICHAEL NOVAK
I am not in pursuit of wealth, neither am I in want of fame! I am not after applauds that shall turn... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Hard core superstar by far you're the ultimate star. Do you wanna be a superstar? Well that's what y...
TEGAN QUIN
Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Sa... ABHIJIT NASKAR
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... CAROL LEIFER I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't wa...
SARA QUIN I am completely out of my comfort zone making this commitment.
LARRY SNOW
He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making... DAVID SEDARIS
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is o... LYNDON B. JOHNSON Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's...
TEGAN QUIN I think after this I will probably want to get into management and stop the football side of it. You...
DENNIS WISE I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of ...
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K.A. CROSS
I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference. JAMES HOWE I'm back into my defensive mode. I'm trying to stop guys, especially this time of year. We've got a ...
CHARLIE BELL In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possib...
JOHN KERRY
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
[Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nic... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old.
SARA BAUME The last time I went out at night in the city was almost a year ago. It began with anxiety, then I w...
SARA BAUME
This is who I am. Accept it or not. The tattoos won't wash off, the earrings will never change. I am... KATIE MCGARRY I am tired and I am stressed of all this foolishness, I am hurt and know it’s a test but most of a...
KURT E. FLOWERS SR.
It’s not the belief that I can do that limits me: it is the belief that I cannot do. I must stop d... AVINA CELESTE
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to ke... ANNE SEXTON
I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the fir... POPE FRANCIS
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own. PATRICE LECONTE I am five, I will never understand
why we are stranded in our selves
but in this moment I ...
SHARON DOUBIAGO
Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop ... IMAN
The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, ... ELIZABETH GILBERT
I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to b... GEORGE LUCAS I'd rather make my crib a house of God and pray directly to God verses, than listening to this hypoc...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Accept the good, bad and ugly sides of you, everybody has them. All of these aspects make you who yo...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
I had all kinds of fantasies, like a lot of girls, but did I actually go through the motions of plan... 
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, The Hidden Power of the Heart Each moment is a doorway to time travel. Being in this very moment ... 
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I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. 
I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me. 
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[Like her friends Faith Hill and Martina McBride, Sara says she never sleeps. No time for pedicures ... 