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«To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
Joy,
Love,
Risk
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Keywords:
After Dark,
airless,
animal,
avoid,
become,
break even,
broken,
carefully,
casket,
caskets,
change,
coffin,
coffins,
come round,
dark,
dark a,
even,
give,
give or take,
hobbies,
impenetrable,
intact,
in that,
irredeemable,
keeping,
little,
lock,
locking,
lock in,
lock up,
luxuries,
motionless,
No One,
possibly,
round,
rounder,
rounding,
round up,
safe,
safes,
selfishness,
sure,
unbreakable,
under wraps,
vulnerable,
wrap,
wrapping,
wraps,
wrap up,
Wringing,
wrings,
wring from,
wrung
«It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.»
«Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.»
Author: Nora Ephron
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Keywords:
admit,
crazier,
craziest,
crazy,
fine,
fined,
insane,
like crazy,
sane,
saner,
sanest,
sure,
willing
«I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.»
Author: Robert McCloskey
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About:
Confusion,
Funny,
Listening,
Understanding
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Keywords:
also known as,
as we say,
believe,
but,
Did you know,
heard,
hear out,
Hear say,
is,
is not,
I Think I Do,
know,
meant,
not,
Not sure,
realize,
said,
Say Any,
sure,
that,
The More You Know,
think,
think out,
think over,
think up,
understand,
well thought out,
WHAT
«If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.»
«I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.»
«May the friendships you make be those which endure and all of your grey clouds be small ones for sure. And trusting in Him to Whom we all pray, may a song fill your heart every step of the way.»
Author: Irish Blessings
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About:
Friendship
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Keywords:
all of,
clouded,
clouding,
clouds,
Clouds The,
cloud over,
endure,
fill,
for sure,
friendships,
grey,
ones,
pray,
song,
step,
sure,
trusting
«I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(
Poet)
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Keywords:
and then,
asexual,
black,
blacker,
Black a,
black people,
Black woman,
by the way,
capable,
caught,
continue,
difficulty,
end man,
faces,
fat,
fats,
fatter,
fattest,
forgive,
forgiveness,
For every,
glory,
glorying,
hell,
hold on,
human being,
inevitable,
injured,
injuring,
in the end,
known,
larger,
large white,
learned,
liking,
mirror,
mistake,
mistakes,
most unattractive,
myself,
one of the largest,
our own,
overcome,
poor,
Real Men,
rough,
rougher,
roughest,
roughs,
sees,
self taught,
sexual,
society,
sorrier,
sorriest,
sorry,
sure,
Teach,
The Blacks,
The End,
The Mirror,
the threat of,
thin,
think about,
thinned,
thinner,
thinnest,
thinning,
thins,
Threats,
unattractive,
white,
whited,
whiter,
white woman,
whiting,
years,
young
«It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(
Philosopher)
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About:
Wisdom
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Keywords:
err,
errs,
healthiest,
healthy,
might,
reminded,
strongest,
sure,
unwise,
weaken,
weakening,
wisdom,
wisest
«I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
am,
an explanation,
before,
different,
explanation,
I am,
may,
said,
same,
sure,
sure thing