“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

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"I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once."

- John Green

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"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

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"You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

- John Green

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"You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

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"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."

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"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

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"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

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"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

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"Happy Tuesday! It is a good day to reflect on the week so far and spread happiness."

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