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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realizati

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen

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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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alone
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Hope
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Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. – Lee Venden

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A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford

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It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. – C.W. Leadbeater

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Novelties please less than they impress. – Byron, Don Juan, 1824

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Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. Luke 12:48 – Bible

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If you cant sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. Its the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. – Dale Carnegie

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Worry

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams… we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. – Erich Fromm

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When the stomach is full the heart is glad. – Dutch proverb

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Eating