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to try the one I've never tried before."
- Mae West

ON BEING HUMAN

"A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders."
- Lord Dunsany

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday."

- Mary Schmich

"Our affection for others is the one thing that is an infinite resource. We can never care too much, or for too many."
- Charles de Lint

"Civilization is what we carry on over lunch and dinner and, in America, where a family can go for weeks and never sit down in one place at one time and say 25 words or more, you sometimes wonder if conversation or stories will exist 20 years from now or if we'll just network by e-mail."
- Garrison Keillor

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy

"If enough little people like me make our little differences, one day we're going to wake up to find that we really did manage to change the world."
- Charles de Lint

"If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
- Omar Bradley

"People are very inclined to set moral standards for others."
- Elizabeth Drew

ON LOVE & ROMANCE

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."
- William Shakespeare

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it; really look after it and nurture it."
- John Lennon

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
- H.L. Mencken

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
- Tom Robbins

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
- Mignon McLaughlin

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