Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
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A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
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After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.
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If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
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Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
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And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
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The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
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You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.
I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.
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Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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