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"When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel."
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"All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do."

"Some of us fast so that we can have less discomfort in life. The reason is not far-fetched - God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose."

"Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential."

"To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up."

"I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God you have one). This isn't a popularity contest, it's not the moral Olympics, and it's not church. But it's Writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe."

"When you want to become great, you have to know what to do, I mean you must first determine what you were born to do."
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"As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth."


"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."


"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."


"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."


"I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style."
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