"If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp."

Inspirational, Gratitude, Existence, Appreciation, Life

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"If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp."

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Inspirational, Faith, Hope, Plans, Trust

"To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Stay strong in spirit, be patient and you will overcome any situation."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Who I am to talk? I dream of rain."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

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"Patient is a persistent act."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Inspirational, Patience, Persistence, Endurance, Strength

"Success is a steadily progress. You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life."

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"Make this moment magnificent!"

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"The human race is governed by its imagination."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Bill Bryson

"If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be."

Society, Language, Fear, Future, Change

"If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it."

Humor, Observation, Irony, Detail

"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things."

Technology, Irony, Intelligence, Humor

"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."

Economy, Population, World

"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."

Mindset, Perspective, Observation, Discovery, Awareness

"What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..."

Discovery, Curiosity, Exploration, Observation, Wonder

"The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one."

Religion, Economics, History, Power

"Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity."

Language, Change, Authority, Tradition

"It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own."

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"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."

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