Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your hearts des

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your hearts desire the other is to get it. – George Bernard Shaw

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. – Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left

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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Being yourself is one of the hardest things because its scary. You always wonder whether youll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record Inside Out because thats my motto about life. I dont think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are. – Emmy Rossum

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. – Leo Tolstoy

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