"When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again."

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Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.223, St. Martin's Press

Sarah Addison Allen

#Opportunity Quotes #Missing Quotes #Cups Quotes

“Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.”
“I think everybody's nuts.”
“As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.”
“Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.”
“Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been.”
“I don't even think you know how great you really are. I believe in you.”
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.123, Vintage
“My name is Mortimer Alexander and I am a licensed summoner." "Darn. I'd hoped you were the pizza delivery guy.”

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