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" Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. "
John Updike
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" You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens. "
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" Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. "
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" My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. "
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" To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. "
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" It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. "
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" When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. "
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" I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same. "
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" No water, no life. No blue, no green. "
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" Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities. "
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" Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. "
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" Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life. "
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" There is no wealth but life. "
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" The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. "
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" Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. "
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" In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor. "
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" There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. "
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" At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates. "
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" Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. "
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" The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. "
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