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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same."

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"One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same."

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Akiroq Brost

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."

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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."

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"I don't think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope."

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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

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"What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God."

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"There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well."

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"Even if the circumstances around you are like darkness, believe that God will give you light."

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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."

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"This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people's hearts he writes happy and on some people's hearts he writes sad and on some people's hearts he writes crazy and on some people's hearts he writes genius and on some people's hearts he writes angry and on some people's hearts he writes winner and on some people's hearts he writes loser."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.'I know,' she said. 'Try to do it behind my back, will you? You can bet on that, Mom. We both sat there and laughed."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.So I renamed myself Ari.If I switched the letter, my name was Air.I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"You can't expect to go both ways when you're driving on a one-way street."

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