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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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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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Elizabeth Bowen
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Loneliness
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. – Ansel Adams

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Miscellaneous

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry Adams

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Miscellaneous

Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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Miscellaneous

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. – Charles Mackay

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sad

It’s Not All About You…Stay in the Game. Taking myself lightly means trading my self-absorption for connecting with others…it is really not all about you! One of our workshop participants relates to this principle in this way: Don’t make yourself more important than the situation. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

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Selfishness

Thats what people respect, the fact that I wasnt a chump that laid on his back and gave up. – Mike Tyson

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respect

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. – William Hazlitt

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Peace