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The only certainty life contains is death.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach, I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.