Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
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FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
BO LOZOFF We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of
grace at any given moment.
BO LOZOFF We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
BO LOZOFF Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.
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DAVID LEVITHAN The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.
GLEN MCDIARMID The only trend you can really identify at the moment is that things seem to be M&A driven.
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UGO BETTI You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
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DOUG RINE You may legally become an adult at a certain age but the moment you truly become an adult is the mom...
CARL WHITE There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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MIKE HUCKABEE I think it's something you have to review. There are a lot of things, which I don't know anything ab...
JACKIE HENDRIKS Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard.
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'Yeah. But you remember some ...
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KATHI APPELT At this moment we are required to answer the greatest question that the study of history has ever gi...
DANIEL POLISENO You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand.
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DAN BENJAMIN Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknow...
ELIZABETH BEAR While getting lost in all those little things that seem so important, don't forget the little things...
VIRGINIA ALISON On any given day, any dog team can be beaten. There will be a lot of good teams there.
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DAVID LEVITHAN It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
DAVID LEVITHAN contiguous, adj.
I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I kne...
DAVID LEVITHAN You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
DAVID LEVITHAN I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
DAVID LEVITHAN I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
DAVID LEVITHAN You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,...
DAVID LEVITHAN There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don...
DAVID LEVITHAN I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu...
DAVID LEVITHAN The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran...
DAVID LEVITHAN I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.
DAVID LEVITHAN So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me."
She triangled...
DAVID LEVITHAN What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people...
DAVID LEVITHAN exacerbate, v.
I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion...
DAVID LEVITHAN If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl...
DAVID LEVITHAN yearning, n. and adj.
At the core of this desire is the belief that ...
DAVID LEVITHAN Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
DAVID LEVITHAN And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ...
DAVID LEVITHAN ubiquitous, adj.
When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�...
DAVID LEVITHAN flux, n.
The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feeling...
DAVID LEVITHAN breathtaking, adj.
Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be...
DAVID LEVITHAN I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ...
DAVID LEVITHAN libidinous, adj.
I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor....
DAVID LEVITHAN love, n.
I'm not even going to try.
DAVID LEVITHAN lover, n.
Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei...
DAVID LEVITHAN Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ...
DAVID LEVITHAN If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ...
DAVID LEVITHAN There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'...
DAVID LEVITHAN You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all...
DAVID LEVITHAN There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about...
DAVID LEVITHAN Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m...
DAVID LEVITHAN Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
DAVID LEVITHAN How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s...
DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ...
DAVID LEVITHAN It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia...
DAVID LEVITHAN I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ...
DAVID LEVITHAN Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha...
DAVID LEVITHAN Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e...
DAVID LEVITHAN Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ...
DAVID LEVITHAN My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
DAVID LEVITHAN The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.
DAVID LEVITHAN So what do you have to confess now?"
I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th...
DAVID LEVITHAN My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw...
DAVID LEVITHAN