“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”
“You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.”
“Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook.”
“You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.”
“A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.”
“Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around "I love you" like a
marked-down phrase in a sale bin.”
“It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
“Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.”
“Quienes de verdad te quieren no pretenderán jamás que cambies por ellos.”
“What doesn't kill you, makes you paranoid.”
“They've forgotten, or maybe they've never learning, that their worth is not determined by how much a man wants them.”
“looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.”
“gods and luck are fickle friends at best.”
“squeeze to get my attention. “Oh my gosh, Dean! I think a gang of thugs are attacking the people in line.”
“I think some have to fight harder to choose good over evil because the evil’s got it out for them. And maybe it’s because those’re the ones evil knows will become the strongest warriors, recognizing true wickedness when it rears its head.”
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