If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs. ― Sarah Dessen

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A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long. ― Pascal Mercier

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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know. ― Patrick Ness

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I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong. ― D.H. Lawrence

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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. - Gary Ackerman

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Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? - Fannie Lou Hamer

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We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

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You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life. ― Roy T. Bennett

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor E. Frankl

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