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“Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.”
― Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

“Never say more than is necessary.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
― Edmund Burke

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.”
― bell hooks

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato