"Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death."

Reflection, Observation, Reality, Universe, Life

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"Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death."

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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Reflection, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reflection, Law, Disobedience, Destruction, Morality

"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Find time to admire and appreciate the glittering lights on snowflakes."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"To reflect God's image is a lifestyle."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"What you are seeking is yourself."

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Explore more quotes by Annie Dillard

"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."

Writing, Excitement, First, Impossibility, Writer

"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."

Literature, Will, World, Writer

"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

Nothing, Past, Will, Wood

"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."

Adventure, Freedom, Journey, Truth, Curiosity

"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."

Learning, Life, Reflection, Growth

"Somewhere and I can't find where I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' 'No' said the priest 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why ' asked the Eskimo earnestly 'did you tell me?'"

Philosophy, Faith, Innocence, Knowledge, Curiosity

"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."

Family, Children, World, Years

"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."

Imagination, Books, Mind, Fiction

"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?"

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"On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away."

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