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"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance."
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"Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place."
"If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief."
"You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you."
"I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko."
"Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that what had been granted her she had not desired. So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him."
"I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend."
"If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him."
"We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong."
"There was a faint ringing in her ears that turned into a roar. And beneath it, a sudden wave of numbness, a too-familiar lack of sight or sound or feeling. She didn't know why it happened, because she had been so dead set on hating him, but . . . it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the absolute truth about her-and didn't hate her for it.It would have been really, really nice.She walked away without another word. With each step she took back to her room, that flickering light inside of her guttered.And went out."
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"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."
"Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength."
"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."
"To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching."
"If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God."
"Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only."
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