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"The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself."
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"When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love, and opportunities to you."
"Talk to ourselves in the same way we'd talk to someone we'd love. Yes, you made a mistake. You're human. You don't have to do it like anyone else does. Fixing it and making amends will help. Self-loathing will not. Reach out to someone we trust--a person who has earned the right to hear our story and who has the capacity to respond with empathy."
"I can't. It's not possible. I'm not good enough ... - These are lies the demons of your past use to scare away the possibilities of the present."
"When we're not true to our thoughts and not true to the feelings we have deep inside, we find ourselves unhappy. Be courageous enough to align your life with your feelings, desires, and sense of purpose."
"Maybe you are in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy looking for a way out, looking for the next rung in the ladder on your climb to the Peak of Happiness, or you may even be at the Peak of Happiness already, looking for a way to stay there. Wherever you are in life, this book is designed to give you the tools necessary to help you achieve your goals."
"Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?"
"I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting."
"Peak Performance is not a destination but a journey!"
"There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman."
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"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."
"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look."
"My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be."
"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."
"The theologian is interested specifically in the modern novel because there he sees reflected the man of our time, the unbeliever, who is nevertheless grappling in a desperate and usually honest way with intense problems of the spirit."
"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."
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