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È naturale che dubito. Non pratico una certezza, pratico una fede.
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Senza la fede, la vita è come il cielo notturno: un trilione di asterischi e nessuna spiegazione.
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Se paghi per averla è istruzione. Se fai pagare per darla è know-how.
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Le memorie più felici sono di momenti che si sono conclusi quando avrebbero dovuto.
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Quando tutto quello che valeva la pena di fare è stato fatto, ci saranno un sacco di cose da disfare.
6/52
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
7/52
Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.
8/52
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.
9/52
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
10/52
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
11/52
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.
12/52
What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.
13/52
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.
14/52
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.
15/52
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
16/52
In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
17/52
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
18/52
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
19/52
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
20/52
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
21/52
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
22/52
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
23/52
I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.
24/52
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
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Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.
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A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
28/52
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
29/52
To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of.
30/52
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
31/52
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
32/52
Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.
33/52
I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.
34/52
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar
35/52
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.
36/52
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
37/52
If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.
38/52
Sometimes in tragedy we find out life's purpose... The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
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Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.
40/52
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
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Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life living true to that lie.
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Never act until you have clearly answered the question: what happens if I do nothing?
43/52
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
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There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.
45/52
Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it.
46/52
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company; pets we allow into our solitude.
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We can usually recognize the consequence of our actions. It is the consequence of our inaction that gets confused with the inevitable.
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Di solito siamo in grado di riconoscere le conseguenze delle nostre azioni. È la conseguenza della nostra inazione che viene confusa con l'inevitabile.
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Non agire fino a quando non hai risposto chiaramente alla domanda: cosa succederebbe se non facessi niente?
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Ferire qualcuno che sai ti perdonerà è la cosa più scorretta di tutte.