Sarah Dessen Quotes
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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Saying to oneself that one should ask more and tell less does not solve the problem of building a relationship of mutual trust. The underlying attitude of competitive one-upmanship will leak out if it is there. Humble Inquiry starts with the attitude and is then supported by our choice of questions. The more we remain curious about the other person rather than letting our own expectations and preconceptions creep in, the better our chances are of staying in the right questioning mode. We have to learn that diagnostic and confrontational questions come very naturally and easily, just as telling comes naturally and easily. It takes some discipline and practice to access one’s ignorance, to stay focused on the other person.
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Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.
