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My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations. — John Green

I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't. — Kristin Cashore

But authors before they write should read. — Fanny Burney

Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good. — Oliver Burkeman

When we stop thinking primarily about ourselves, of our wants, our image and our own self-preservation, we undergo a transformation of truly heroic proportions. — Jose N. Harris

It's your life. You're the one that has to live it. If you make the wrong choices at least you know they were yours. — Ingrid Diaz

Do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later. My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes. However that may be, I have never regretted that cowardice is not optional with me. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

How did she do that? How did she make him feel weak and strong? Thrilled and terrified? He couldn't find a way to return what she'd given him. He didn't have the gift she did with words. All he could do was take her hand and kiss it, and bring it to his heart ... — Veronica Rossi

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work. — Peter Drucker

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless. — Kofi Annan

it may be worth while to note again how often finely developed skulls are discovered in the graveyards of old monasteries, and how likely seems Galtons conjecture, that progress was arrested in the Middle Ages, because the celibacy of the clergy brought about the extinction of the best strains of blood. — John Beddoe