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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
― Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is no later. This is later.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.”
― Jojo Moyes, One Plus One

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
― A.A. Milne

“Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“You can't save time. You can only spend it, but you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“Champagne is never a mistake.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Hello, Rabbit,' he said, 'is that you?'
'Let's pretend it isn't,' said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Кто хочет удержать - тот теряет. Кто готов с улыбкой отпустить - того стараются удержать.”
― Эрих Мария Ремарк, Heaven Has No Favorites

“Лилиан всё это знала. Она знала, что шляпка, которая идёт тебе, служит большей моральной опорой, чем целый свод законов. Она знала, что в тончайшем вечернем туалете, если он красив, нельзя простудиться, зато легко простудиться в том платье, которое раздражает тебя, или в том, двойник которого ты на этом же вечере видишь на другой женщине; такие вещи казались Лилиан неопровержимыми, как химические формулы. Но она знала также, что в моменты тяжёлых душевных переживаний платья могут стать либо добрыми друзьями, либо заклятыми врагами; без их помощи женщина чувствует себя совершенно потерянной, зато, если они помогают ей, как помогают дружеские руки, женщине намного легче в трудный момент. Во всём этом нет ни грана пошлости, просто не надо забывать, какое большое значение имеют в жизни мелочи.”
― Ремарк

“Я не дура, Эгиль, говорю я. И прекрасно понимаю, что ставить маленькую кастрюльку на большую конфорку - расточительство электроэнергии, но ведь если все время думать только о такой ерунде, расточаешь другую энергию, много более ценную...”
― Карл Фруде Тиллер , Замыкая круг

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Папа говорит – ты стоишь в начале пути. За твоими плечами множатся и множатся твои ушедшие в небытие предки. За левым плечом – по линии мамы. За правым – по линии отца. Они – твои крылья, говорит папа. Они – твоя сила. Держи их всегда за спиной, и никто никогда не сможет сделать тебе больно. Потому что, пока помнишь о крыльях – ты неуязвим.”
― Narine Abgaryan, Люди, которые всегда со мной

“If something is presented as an accepted truth, alternative ways of thinking do not even come up for consideration.”
― Ellen J. Langer, Mindfulness

“Знаешь, друже, всякая встреча больше ведь, чем расставание. До встречи - пустота, ничто, а после расставания пустоты уже не бывает. Встретившись однажды, полностью расстаться невозможно. Человек остается в памяти как ее, памяти, часть.”
― Евгений Водолазкин

“I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking

“Books are more than doctors, of course. Some novels are loving, lifelong companions; some give you a clip around the ear; others are friends who wrap you in warm towels when you've got those autumn blues. And some...well, some are pink candy floss that tingles in your brain for three seconds and leaves a blissful voice. Like a short, torrid love affair.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop