“to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Don't think of what's past! . . . I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbors—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“When you get used to that kind of life—of never having anything you want—then you stop knowing what it is you want.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it—which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.”

― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I was beside myself with rage, and if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,And life is never the same again.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“The only immediate utility of all sciences, is to teach us, how to control and regulate future events by their causes.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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