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“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.”
― Charles Duhigg

“Nothing anyone says will ever hurt you. You will always be as strong as you want to be.”
― Charles Duhigg

“Studies show that people have no problem ignoring strangers' injuries, but when a friend is insulted, our sense of outrage is enough to overcome the inertia that usually makes protests hard to organize.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“If you believe you can change--if you make it a habit--the change becomes real.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“I think that sometimes when you get used to a bad thing -- like being in prison or getting kidnapped by fairies -- it's better to live with that bad thing than trying to change it. Because what if you get to chance to change it and you mess up? What if it's your last chance?”
― Carol Goodman

“We don't get to choose what truths God reveals to us -- but we do get to choose what we do with the truths -- whom we share it with and how.”
― Carol Goodman, The Seduction of Water

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.”
― Lee Child

“...I'd come home but nearly everybody does. It's the ones that don't go home that I feel sorry for, they're not happy.”
― Laura Marney, No Wonder I Take a Drink

“No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home”
― Laura Marney, No Wonder I Take a Drink

“But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention.”
― Laura Marney, No Wonder I Take a Drink

“Shotguns and children don't mix.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“We are always seeking it, never finding it.”
― M.., The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls

“The meaning of life is more than a definition of life.”
― M.., The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

“Our once simple, unified meaning of life is being shattered into many, sometimes competing, concepts.”
― M.., The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls

“Miracles appear to be required only when you try to take too large a step all at once. This is not to say that life is not an impressive phenomenon. But as is typical with impressive phenomena, it is impressive because it emerges gradually somewhere on a long continuum.”
― M.., The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls

“When you gaze out on a quiet, peaceful meadow, next to a still pond, under a motionless blue sky, you wonder how the noisy, busy cacophony of life could have arisen from such silent, motionless beginning.”
― M.., The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls

“One reason that we find the emergence of life surprising is that we don't really see much of it. . . We are like Horton the elephant, too large to hear the Whos.”
― M.., The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls

“You have to make your own chances.”
― Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It

“When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on.”
― Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It

“Why wouldn't you want to buy something that made you money?”
― Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It