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"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."

"Only your calling can give you fulfillment."

"Your life was meant to be used to fulfill your purpose and destiny."

"Your calling is whatever motivates you more than money."

"As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job, the retired pray for grandchildren."
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"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart."

"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"

"I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion."

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

"The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview."

"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners."

"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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