"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

Life, Love, People, World

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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

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"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

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"Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!"

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"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself."

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"Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler."

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"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away."

Hope

"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it."

Writing

"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."

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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."

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"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."

Family

"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."

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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."

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"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."

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"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."

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