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- Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
- "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
- Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
- I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
- The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
- Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
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