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"I'm holding out a little hope personally because I want to be back, but this injury could take a year to fully recover. The last thing I want to do is feel like I'm OK, come out early and be vulnerable to further injury."
"You could do with losing a little bit of weight."
"All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter."
"Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage."
"It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well."
"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."
"Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal."
"I like a little hardcore love."
"One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable."
"Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely."
"It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little."
"When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do."
"I like hurting little things that can't fight back"
"You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself"
"You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them."
"Life is too short to be little."
"Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude."
"For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on."
"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."
