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"But suppose your dA mon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dA mon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up."
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"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."
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Personal Development
"If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated."
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Personal Development
"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
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Personal Development
"It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you " it must be deliberate."
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Personal Development
"Losing someone doesn't scare me. Death doesn't scare me. What scares me is the inability to no longer feel the touch of the one you love."
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
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"I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it."
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"Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for."
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Personal Development
"How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit."
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Personal Development
"You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family."
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"To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do... Don't you worry that John Faa's heart is too soft to strike a blow when the time comes. And the time will come under judgement. Not under passion."
Philosophy
"She delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her."
Nature
"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."
Writing
"What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose."
Writing
"You speak of destiny as if it was fixed."
Destiny
"The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage."
Storytelling
"We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
Time
"She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her."
Life
"He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven."
Life
"If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure."
Ambition
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