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"This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn't see them in my mind's eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and the silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing process."
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"A man's conquest depends on his knowledge of Jesus Christ."
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"In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception of life."
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"A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes."
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"When you become the light, there will be no darkness."
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"This time is very important in your life because God wants to lift this generation from failures, poverty, and unbelief."
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"I could forget that part, but it had to have been true."
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"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
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"He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."
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"Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language."
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"It is so amazing that this mighty world changes with us when we change."
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"Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally I'd see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I would be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real."
Isolation
"My whole life sort of ended when my mom died."
Choice
"God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch."
Divinity
"Saying it's hard is ultimately a justification to do whatever seems like the easiest thing to do - have the affair, stay at that horrible job, end a friendship over a slight, keep loving someone who treats you terribly."
Identity
"Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before."
Ambition
"What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?"
Insight
"It had been so silent in the wake of that commotion, a kind of potent silence that seemed to contain everything. The songs of the birds and the creak of the trees. The dying snow and the unseen gurgling water. The glimmering sun. The certain sky. The gun that didn't have a bullet in its chamber. And the mother. Always the mother. The one who would never come to me."
Pain
"The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated."
Empathy
"One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It's like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face."
Insight
"It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that."
Loss
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