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– Henry James
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Rock – Barbara Kingsolver
“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
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Get better – Haruki Murakami
“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.”
– Haruki Murakami
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Years of struggle – Sigmund Freud
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
– Sigmund Freud
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Care too much – A.A. Milne
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
– A.A. Milne
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Happiness – Orhan Pamuk
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
– Orhan Pamuk
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Infinite – William Blake
“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
– William Blake
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Spiritual growth – Mary Austin
“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later… Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
– Mary Austin
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Melancholy – Italo Calvino
“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
– Italo Calvino
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Turn the glass – Jonathan Kellerman
“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
– Jonathan Kellerman
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Surroundings – Robert Green Ingersoll
“For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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Memory – Guy de Maupassant
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
– Guy de Maupassant
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Like and love – Unknown
“What is the difference between “I like you” and “I love you”? The answer is simple. When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.”
– Unknown
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First principle – Richard Feynman
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
– Richard Feynman
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Spark of unhappiness – Tom Perrotta
“Maybe that’s what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
– Tom Perrotta