"But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it."

-- Nicholas Sparks

“The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.”

Source : 'Livre sans nom: Twelve Reflections' (privately printed 1934) no. 12
“There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.”
“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”

Source : Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.111, Penguin
“If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.”
“When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.”
“I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.”
“Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of a good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. . . . If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.”
“What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.”

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