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"As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society."

"To transform mankind into a joyful garden, let us bloom like a spring flower."

"Every movement based on the kingdom principles brings a positive turn around."

"God can turn your weaknesses into your strength."

"Every sacred travel transforms the soul."

"I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers."

"Turn an impossibility into an exciting reality."

"When you yearn to create positive change, stop focusing on your old stories. If you hope to transform your life from the inside out and become a new improved version of your former self, refocus on what you want rather than what you don't."

"We must change our way of thinking, correct our plans and envision new ways of attaining our goals."

"The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives."
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"I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it."

"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."

"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."

"In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience."

"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."

"The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug it as it were to one side does self-consciousness dissolve and sleep with its healing, brilliantly detailed fictions pour in upon the jittery spirit. Falling asleep is a study in trust. Likewise, religion tries to put as ease with the world. Being human cannot be borne alone. We need other presences. We need soft night noises-a mother speaking downstairs. We need the little clicks and sighs of a sustaining otherness. We need the gods."

"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper."
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