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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

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But Anne, at seven-and-twenty, thought very differently from what she had been made to think at nineteen.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

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You’re broken down and tired Of living life on a merry-go-round And you can’t find the fighter But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out And move mountains We gonna walk it out And move mountains

Andra Day, “Rise Up” (Cheers to the Fall)

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Time and again I thought that the end was just around the bend But you showed me there’s more, I got more in store, and you got me It was always you It was always you

Ingrid Michaelson, “Always You” (Human Again)

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Anne Elliot was not out of his thoughts…

Jane Austen, Persuasion

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And we’ll rise up High like the waves We’ll rise up In spite of the ache We’ll rise up And we’ll do it a thousands times again For you....

Andra Day, “Rise Up” (Cheers to the Fall)

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

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We are all just prisoners here, of our own device

The Eagles, “Hotel California” (Hotel California)

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This could be Heaven or this could be Hell

The Eagles, “Hotel California” (Hotel California)

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I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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When the silence isn’t quiet And it feels like it’s getting hard to breathe And I know you feel like dying But I promise we’ll take the world to it’s feet And move mountains

Andra Day, “Rise Up ” (Cheers to the Fall)

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I love the way your body moves Towards me from across the room

Adele, “I Miss You” (25)

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I believe I thought only of you.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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It’s good to be pissed off when man and nature conspire to do you in.

Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

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And I’ll rise up I’ll rise like the day I’ll rise up I’ll rise unafraid I’ll rise up And I’ll do it a thousand times again

Andra Day, “Rise Up” (Cheers to the Fall)

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It is cold here at the end of all the ages.

C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson