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41 " There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one and nothing can break you, and the second is that you become so hard that nothing and no one can break you. Either way you go, the path will be very painful. But herein is the great sadness of it all: that anyone must try to become something that cannot be broken (whether the soft or the hard). Why must we be born into a world where we must spend our lives struggling to become unbreakable? "
― C. JoyBell C.
42 " I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings. "
― Isabel Gillies , Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
43 " Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds. "
― Julie Powell , Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
44 " If you take on the martyr/entitlement role, two things are definitely going to happen: you’ll be a lot less happier with your life, and you will have a husband not exactly wanting to come home to you. "
― Laura Schlessinger
45 " Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion. "
46 " I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all. "
― Max Barry , Machine Man
47 " A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart "
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi
48 " A difference of opinion does two things if you allow it, expands the mind and widens the heart. "
49 " Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at. "
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma , Guru with Guitar
50 " You can't do it alone. Two things joined to a third thing are joined to each other. A is united to B and C is united to B. Therefore, A and C are united. "
51 " There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)
52 " Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter. "
― Tarryn Fisher , F*ck Love
53 " When you accidentally assert power over someone or something, one of two things will happen: 1) you will be respected; or 2) you will be hated "
54 " We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting daylight and darkness with incorporeal obscenities. From across an immeasurable divide, we brought the supernatural into all that is manifest. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance. Our heartbeats are numbered, our steps counted. Even as we survive and reproduce, we know ourselves to be dying in a dark corner of infinity. Wherever we go, we know not what expects our arrival but only that it is there. "
― Thomas Ligotti , The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
55 " God only requires two things from us. First, He asks that we stay unwavering in our knowledge that His faithful love endures forever. And second, He asks that we stay steadfast in our belief that His intentions are to bless and redeem. As we stand on these two truths, He strengthens our faith and increases our trust. "
― Katherine J. Walden , Dare to Call Him Friend
56 " Skateboarding has taught me two things - that symbolise a meaning of life. How to keep a balance and how to pick yourself up when you've fallen. "
― Nikki Rowe
57 " There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act. "
― Ayn Rand
58 " There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children "
― Tiziano Terzani , La fine è il mio inizio
59 " Mr. Passaro, let me teach you about how medicine works.” He starts out.“One of two things is going to happen. Either the Doctors are going to say I told you so, or they are going to say that Jess was the exception. What you believe will determine who gets to say I told you so to whom.” “Never stop believing.” He begs me.“Doctor, you are on the team”. I say.He smiles. "
― , 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life: (Every Breath Is Gold #1)
60 " To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of oneself neither introspectively nor analytically, but actually be aware of oneself as one is and see if it is at all possible to be entirely free of all those issues that seem to clog the mind.To explore, there must be freedom, not at the end, but right at the beginning. Unless one is free one cannot explore, investigate or examine. Two things are essential: freedom and the act of learning. One cannot learn about oneself unless one is free, free so that one can observe, not according to any pattern, formula or concept, but actually observe oneself as one is. "
― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle