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“Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.”
― A Walk to Remember
― A Walk to Remember
“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
― Nineteen Minutes
― Nineteen Minutes
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
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