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"What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green."
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"It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them."
"To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults."
"Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities."
"Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul."
"God tells you where to look, love tells you what to see."
"Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition."
"By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU."
"For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU."
"If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all."
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"Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare."
"Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be."
"The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper."
"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."
"My friends call me by my name.'You don't have any friends.'I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong."
"I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky."
"The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween."
"Don't beat yourself up,' said Charlotte. 'True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion."
"We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back."
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