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Quote by Laura Hillenbrand

“...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”

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American author known for her historical works. Her notable books include 'Unbroken' and 'Seabiscuit', which have been praised for their in-depth research and vivid portrayal of historical figures. more

“He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.”

Trying Years Two Together Form Three Space Saws Telephones Wire Nineteen

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

People Life Inspirational Years Can Do Achieve Ten Achievement Underestimate Follow Your Dreams Millionaire Billionaire Overestimate Lifetime Achievement

Author:Bill Gates

“I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am”

Knows Way Support Knowing Greater Imagine Nurture Support Me

Author:Ernest Holmes

“Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game and is instructed instead to lead a normal life. That's all." Shuya felt his chest well up inside and his face froze. He stared at Shogo and realized that Noriko was holding her breath. Shogo said, "I was a student in Third Year Class C, Second District, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture." He added, "I survived the Program held in Hyogo Prefecture last year.”

Years Wells Said School Lasts Faces Games Felt Class Students Normal Program Thirds Breaths Winner Chests Last Year Survived Transfers Normal Life

Author:Koushun Takami

“When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it.”

“There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.”

Opportunity Responsibility Lord Gone Greater Blessing Privilege Worthy Temples Behalf Baptized Great Service Proxy Baptized In

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.”

Way Years Lasts Next Loses Consciousness Week Liars Last Year Next Week

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

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