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It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold...

He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small.

I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace...

if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between...

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're...

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

here where we pay soothsayers and acrobats to help lose our weight

I glare at him and sigh. Don't you understand what a book is?Obviously.

this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly...

I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the...

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.

Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve

Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

If there is no longer anything to believe in, then there is no longer a reason to stay.

What's wrong with my mouth? He met my eyes. Nothing. I clicked my tongue. You know what's wrong with yours? What? It lies.

Good Lord, this man is a crusty, selfish penis-head, isn't he?

I think he has my clitoris on speed dial.

don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things-how we think, what we...

And facing death changes all that? Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. He

there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot...

there is no such thing as "too late" in life.

He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty. But then, he didn't worry about a partner. Morrie danced by himself.

There are five people you meet in heaven, the Blue Man suddenly said. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For...

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is....

The little things, I can obey. The big things-how we think, what we value-those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society-determine those for you.

Reading, he claims, would broaden my experience of the world. The ideas to be found in serious books would deepen my thinking about every choice I make.

«But it must be admitted that these are not trivial issues. We live in a world full of horrid conventions. It is taken for granted that one should behave in a certain way, that we must take care of...

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.