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  Sometimes the things we can’t change, end up changing us instead.

  Unknown

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  Instead of asking “what do I want from life?” a more powerful question is “what does life want from me?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Life

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• I don’t care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you’re doing it right. It’s about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

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• When I’m writing, I try not to think things like, ‘Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.’ Books are very long and it’s easy to get discouraged. Instead I think to myself, ‘Wow, I have this great story idea, and today I’m going to write two pages of it. That’s all – just two pages.’

  Linda Sue Park

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• It’s bad enough that I’m an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

  Betsy Palmer

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• Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

  Hiawatha

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• When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I had a love of perfumes.

  Virginia Hey

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• Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says ‘Come eat me!’ I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that’s crazy.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

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  Tags in Tempt, Instead

• Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

  Margaret Heffernan

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• I can’t really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

  Jamie Dornan

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  Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

  Gloria Steinem

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  Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.

  Topics in German Proverbs

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  Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

  Adele

  Topics in Friendship, Love

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

  Unknown

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• I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

  Kurt Cobain

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Things, Pretty, Rather, Really, Instead, Just
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  Do not follow where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

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  Some people are selfish… They cheat, they stab, and will try to bring you down. Never let them get you down. Instead use them as steps to reach your Aim!

  Venkat Desireddy

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

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• It’s nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

  Frank Robinson

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• Could you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am? It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I’d appreciate it.

  Barbara Boxer

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