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“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
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“A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
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“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
Ask Sarah Dessen - Tuesday, June 25th!
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