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Scrapbook: "Billy"

by Samie

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My point is: if you want to derive ethics and morals from reality, from human solidarity, from actual knowledge of where we stand in relation to the universe, it may not be too depressing to realize that we are, in fact, alone in this. We can't pray for supernatural aid. We can't invoke what we don't know. We're arrogant and vain when we do it. It tempts us into saying we're better than people of other faiths or other religions. And if we understood that we are all stranded on a rather difficult shore, born into a losing struggle with every day of our lives being more and more subtracted from less and less, the stoicism of that conclusion might make us turn towards each other in a more interested and definite way, would demonstrate more integrity, and would free us from the great retardant of human civilization: the realm of illusion.

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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

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Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

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Death ends a life, not a relationship.

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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

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The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

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Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

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Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.

"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

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We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

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So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

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If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

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All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connect us as neighbors-in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.

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It's true that we take a great deal of our own upbringing on into our adult lives and our lives as parents; but it's true, too, that we can change some of the things that we would like to change. It can be hard, but it can be done.

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There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be impetus for our growth.

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Imaging something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

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When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

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You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

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Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

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Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.

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We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom.

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What have you done to justify your existence today?

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Four kinds of persons: zeal without knowledge; knowledge without zeal; neither knowledge nor zeal; both zeal and knowledge.

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FEAR KEEPS US FROM PERFECT LOVE.
If "Perfect love drives out fear...." then the opposite must also be true: Fear keeps us from love!
Bart

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If You Want Something You've Never Had, You Must Be Willing To Do Something You've Never Done.

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Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

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There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

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

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

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