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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

Courage Inspiration Love

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

Best

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Art

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Good

Here lies a knave,
Where in the grave,
His first good deed,
Was feed the weed.

Epitaphs

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

Age

You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.

Hope

There's only one thing that can heal the heart... Only one... It's love, Gaara.

Love

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Life

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Leadership

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

Anger

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.

Communication Humor

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Addictions Attitude Behavior Change Determination Discipline Health Inspiration Motivation Psychology Strength Temptation Wisdom

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Change

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Love

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Art

Men intoxicated are sometimes stunned into sobriety.

Drunkenness

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days!

Happiness

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Sex

Repression for the attainment of economic ends is a necessary weapon of the socialist dictatorship.

Dictatorship of the proletariat