You can’t stop a teacher from doing something. They simply do it.

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"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."

- J.D. Salinger

Love

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

- J.D. Salinger

Love

"You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?"

- J.D. Salinger

Love

"I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse."

- J.D. Salinger

Awareness

"Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- J.D. Salinger

Adversity

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"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

Determination

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

Determination

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

Determination

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination