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• Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Privacy, Individual

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.465, Macmillan

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• Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Worry, Be You, Right Now

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• There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

  John Bercow

  Worry, Influence

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• There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

  David Dinkins

  Worry

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• Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Yoga, Worry, Needs

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• There is no point in worry or wonder about worse or better spiritual conditions, although that game is available. You will not be able to rise above your present vibration level to stay until you love the way you are now.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Games, Worry

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.58, Gibbs Smith

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• You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts.

  Laurie Auchterlonie

  Golf, Style, Balls

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• You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

  Holly Black

  Drunk, Trying, Looks

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Small Gods

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• men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Children, Men, Youth

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

  Danielle Steel

  Jobs, Giving Up, Promise

  Danielle Steel (2009). “The Wedding”, p.20, Random House

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• No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Forever, Realizing, Wasting My Time

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• There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Needs, Mouths

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.232, Candlewick Press

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• For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

  Alan Watts

  Contentment, Alive, Able

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• ...you showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.

  Sylvia Day

  Giving, Example, Woven

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• You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wonder, Realizing, Lows

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Live Life, Helping Others

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2010

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

  Alan Watts

  Goal, Missing, World

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

  Paulo Coelho

  Loss, Space, Trying

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fighting, Flow, Tides

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.115, Delacorte Press

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• Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

  Emily Giffin

  Past, Dwelling, Wonder

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter”, p.1102, St. Martin's Press

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• There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

  Tom Robbins

  Mean, Moon, World

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• Why would anyone want to turn back time? There is no meaning in regret, no point in thinking about thing I could have done. Because there is no guarantee that any decision is the right one.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Regret, Thinking, Guarantees That

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• Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sick, Bullshit, Anxiety

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• Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

  Patrick Ness

  Girl, Believe, Trying

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