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Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

James Patterson
Life, Motivational, Friendship
James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

James Patterson
Life, Memories, Special You

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

James Patterson
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

James Patterson
Life, New York, School
James Patterson (2008). “Sundays at Tiffany's”, p.300, Random House

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

James Patterson
Life, Unrequited Love, Want Something
James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.

James Patterson
Life, Book, Ideas

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