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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. Marguerite Gardiner

Happiness Consists Having Content Being Being Content Little Much

I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world. Marie Rutkoski

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To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. Mario Vargas Llosa

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My perfect beach town isn't a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It's a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants - where the island-wide dress code is 'no shoes, no shirt, no problem.' Mary Kay Andrews

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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little

Nothing Pleasure Having Doing Lots Fun

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. Mary Wollstonecraft

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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? Mason Cooley

You Insults Question Same Want Flattery Raise

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Michael Ende

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For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus. Mike Yaconelli

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One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age. Min Jin Lee

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A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever. Minna Antrim

Kiss Visible Sign Outward Inward Fever

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. Mitch Albom

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It is always your next move. Napoleon Hill

Always Move Next Your

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. Napoleon Hill

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. Napoleon Hill

Thoughts Men Earth Has-Been More Taken Been Than Gold

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. Nikolai Gogol

You World Stupid Nowadays How Whole Grown Imagine

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it. Nikos Kazantzakis

Happiness Water Simple Everyday Miracle Like Aware

May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again! Nikos Kazantzakis

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Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. Nikos Kazantzakis

You Beauty Merciless Look Looks Does Forgive

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. Nikos Kazantzakis

World Everything Hidden Meaning

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