"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."
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"What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness."
"People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you."
"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean."
"Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace."
"I've been the oldest child since before you were born"
"I wouldn’t advise making a four-year commitment to eventually land an $8.00/hour job. Skip college. Read Wikipedia for free instead."
"You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed."
"Never give up...No one knows what's going to happen next."
"Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good."
"My soul is in the sky."
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
"The sun always shines above the clouds."
"I’ll wear a maze on a necklace, dangling over my chest, because if you want to get at my heart, you have to be ready to lose yourself."
"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body."
"Lost Time is never found again."
"you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry"
"If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for."
"Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality."