"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."

Burchill, Julie on bereavement
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on change
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"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on change
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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