"To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better."

-- Ali Smith

“Pain is just a feeling, and feelings aren't real.”

Source : Michelle Hodkin (2014). “The Retribution of Mara Dyer”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
“If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where itâ€™s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you arenâ€™t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.”
“We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.”

Source : Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1904). “The Outlook”
“Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak;”
“I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.”
“No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves”
“The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.”
“I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.”

Source : "Dr. Drew" with Ryan Smith, www.cnn.com. November 3, 2011.

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