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“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
― Andy Warhol

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

“The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
― Mark Twain

“Do as you will, but harm no one.

What you give will be returned to you threefold.

Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“She’d bought a blue notebook in the pharmacy to write down her aunt’s remedies. Star tulip to understand dreams, bee balm for a restful sleep, black mustard seed to repel nightmares, remedies that used essential oils of almond or apricot or myrrh from thorn trees in the desert. Two eggs, which must never be eaten, set under a bed to clean a tainted atmosphere. Vinegar as a cleansing bath. Garlic, salt, and rosemary, the ancient spell to cast away evil.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“Blue must be worn for protection. Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to Venus, will call a man to you, and black tourmaline will eliminate jealousy. When it came to love, you must always be careful. If you dropped something belonging to the man you loved into a candle flame, then added pine needles and marigold flowers, he would arrive on your doorstep by morning, so you would do well to be certain you wanted him there. The most basic and reliable love potion was made from anise, rosemary, honey, and cloves boiled for nine hours on the back burner of the old stove. It had always cost $9.99 and was therefore called Love Potion Number Nine, which worked best on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to see it.
There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to be it.”
― Amanda Gorman