"You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take."

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Source : Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.155, Penguin

Sarah Dessen

#Giving Quotes #Willing Quotes

“When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.”
“There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!”
“Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.”
“Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.”
“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”
“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Jan Kott, Lillian Vallee (1989). “Diary”, p.7, Northwestern University Press
“You should never give up your inner self.”

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