May 2012
7 posts
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
– Maya Angelou, American author and poet
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The past is always tense, the future perfect.
– Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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Time is how you spend your love.
– Zadie Smith, On Beauty
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My fingertips are holding onto
The cracks in our foundation
And I know that I...
– Kate Nash, Foundations
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What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you,
And what am I...
– The Script, Breakeven
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Cause if one day you wake up and find that you’re missing me
and your...
– The Script, The Man Who Can’t Be Moved
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Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in...
– Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States
April 2012
2 posts
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You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
– Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Claude Litner: Why do you want a job with Lord Sugar?
Stuart Baggs: Because...
– The Apprentice
March 2012
4 posts
7 tags
Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.
– Woody Allen, director, actor, screenwriter, author, comedian
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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
– Woody Allen, director, actor, screenwriter, author, comedian
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Lose your head and come to your senses.
– Fritz Perls, founder of the Gestalt approach
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Through humour, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And...
– Bill Cosby, actor, comedian
February 2012
9 posts
5 tags
Sometimes there’s no point in the truth if the only thing it’ll do...
– Ally McBeal
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The idea that when people come together they stay together, I have to take that...
– Ally McBeal
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We can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically,...
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self...
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who...
– Carl Jung, psychologist
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...
– Carl Jung, psychologist
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of...
– Carl Jung, psychologist
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Film review: Haywire
Steven Soderbergh directs this action film about Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) a freelance deadly operative who is being tracked down by her former double-crossing colleagues. They attempted to kill her during a mission because they wanted to pin a murder on her.
Haywire is in the same vein as Soderbergh’s Ocean’s 11 with its all-star cast, including Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor and Michael...
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Paradise is always where love dwells.
– Jean Paul Richter, Romantic writer
January 2012
12 posts
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at...
– Helen Keller, American author, political activist and lecturer
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the...
– Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States
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Please use your liberty to promote ours.
– Aung San Suu Kyi, pro-Democracy leader
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who...
– Aung San Suu Kyi, pro-Democracy leader
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Film review: The Lady
Luc Besson directs The Lady, a biopic about the courageous life of pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and the political struggles Burma (Myanmar) faced.
The story begins in Ragoon, Burman in 1947 with the brutal assassination of Aung San Suu Kyi’s father, General Aung San and his colleagues by Prime Minister U Saw’s gunmen.
General Aung San was instrumental in leading...
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We could keep trying
But things will never change
So I don’t look back...
– Robyn, With Every Heartbeat
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Life is not easy, especially when you plan on achieving something worthwhile. ...
– Marc and Angel Hack Life
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Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a...
– Marc and Angel Hack Life
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If someone wants you in their life, they’ll make room for you. You shouldn’t...
– Marc and Angel Hack Life
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When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to...
– Marc and Angel Hack Life
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Creative ideas reside in people’s minds but are trapped by fear or...
– Alex Osborn, advertising executive and author
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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
– Stephen Nachmanovitch, musician, author, educator
December 2011
13 posts
7 tags
Angela: Karen, this is for you. It’s a dreamcatcher. It’s made by...
– Outnumbered
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Abraham Farlan: Be careful, doctor Reeves. In the whole Universe, nothing is...
– A Matter of Life and Death
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Happiness is an inside job.
– William Arthur Ward, author
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The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
– Horace Walpole, author, British politician
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
– Alan Bennett, author, actor, screenwriter, playwright
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a...
– The History Boys, Alan Bennett
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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
– Marilyn Monroe, American actress, singer and model
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The internet? Is that thing still around?
– Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
– Martin Luther King Junior, American clergyman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, activist and leader in African-American Civil Rights Movement
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Tom: I love you because you did the right thing, and I admire your bravery....
– Desperate Housewives
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An odd thing happens when we die, our senses vanish. Taste, touch, smell and...
– Mary Alice, Desperate Housewives
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It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those...
– Bo Bennett, American businessman
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
– Mark Twain, American author and humourist
November 2011
4 posts
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Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought: useless and...
– Sam Montgomery, A Cinderella Story
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If they don’t chase you when you walk away, keep walking.
– Anonymous
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Love makes you do funny things. It makes you proud. It makes you sorry. That...
– Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years