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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
- Mark Twain
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
- CS Lewis
Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.
- Ignatius of Loyola
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain
We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.
- Hillary Clinton
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
- Lily Tomlin
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- CS Lewis
You May Be One Person To The World But You May Be The World To One Person.
- Anonymous
Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
- Thomas Merton
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
- Paulo Coelho
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
- Marquis de Sade