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Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.”

Faces Night Turns Universe Stars Written Sky Possibility Ready Computer Empty Screens Endless Lit Twists Impossibility Night Sky Twists And Turns Computer Screen Endless Possibilities

Book:Kissed by an Angel

Source: Kissed by an Angel

“Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”

Knows Important Seems Steps

Book:The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“...and time becomes a forgotten detail.”

Forgotten Details

Book:The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!”

Ifs Thinking Soul Fear My Own Wonder Doubt Sea Strange Sake Dear Terror Dare Strange Things

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.”

Inspirational Agree Contradiction Productive

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.”

Moments Next Doubt Effects Increase Reactions Chains Chain Reactions Domino Effect

Author:Jerome Groopman

“To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.”

Giving Humans Persons Happens Spirit Term Chance Circumstances Miracle Endure Extremes Permit Human Spirit Defiance

Book:The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

Source: The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

“One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case”

Thinking Life Is Cases One Thing Memoir

Author:Mark Helprin

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