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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

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Without noticing we’re doing it, we treat the future as intrinsically more valuable than the present. And yet the future

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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

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Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

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Doctors must be psychologically fit for the job — able to make decisions under a terrifying amount of pressure, able to

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Dieting becomes ineffective without sleep: 60% of the pounds you will lose come from lean body mass (such as muscle), and

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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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If a solution fails to appear … and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. … Like the

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You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.

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Today I woke up feeling like I lost someone Like a friend I almost knew A lover I almost loved...

Forgive me, for all the things I did, but mostly for the ones I did not....

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow

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if you’re supposed catch more flies with honey, what does it mean that I catch gnats with sliced-up peaches? or that my ...

And like the moon we must go through phases of emptiness to feel full again.

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all i ever do is procrastinate by yearning for hours and live on ridiculous amounts of shakespeare and lana del rey references,......

[...] And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars....

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they’d had the same experience of looking up from their books ...

And I know I said earlier that he was perfect but he wasn’t perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote ...

“I take her hand under the gray-blue sky and I’m home.”

_Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven_