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"Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything"
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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."
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Personal Development
"Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows."
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Personal Development
"We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?"
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Personal Development
"Infinite mercy flows continuallyBut you're asleep and can't see it.The sleeper's robe goes on drinking river waterWhile he frantically hunts mirages in dreamsAnd runs continually here and there shouting,"There'll be water further on, I know!"It's this false thinking that blocks himFrom the path that leads to himself,By always saying, "Further on!"He's become estranged from "here":Because of a false fantasyHe's driven from reality."
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Personal Development
"Many realities hidden behind wall of perception."
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Personal Development
"Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look."
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Personal Development
"They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."
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Personal Development
"Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks."
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Personal Development
"Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic."
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Personal Development
"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."
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"On the day the tree bloomed in the fall, when its white apple blossoms fell and covered the ground like snow, it was tradition for the Waverleys to gather in the garden like survivors of some great catastrophe, hugging one another, laughing as they touched faces and arms, making sure they were all okay, grateful to have gotten through it."
Family
"A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter."
Love
"My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories."
Books
"At the end of the evening, Paxton and Willa walked Agatha out to the nurse's car, after Agatha had given them a blind tour of the Madam, pointing out by feel and memory everything she remembered about the house. She and Georgie sliding down the banister and their skirts flying up. Playing dolls in Georgie's room. Having pineapple upside - down cake the Jacksons' cook would make in a cast - iron frying pan, so that the brown sugar on top turned crispy. A slide - away secret compartment in the bookcase where they used to leave notes for each other."
Memory
"He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted."
Growth
"He claimed the waters must have, indeed, been healing, because look how hard his journey was on him to get there, and how easy it was on him to get home."
Journey
"Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls' hands tightly and calm herself by telling them what she would make for first frost that year - pork tenderloins with nasturtiums, dill potatoes, pumpkin bread, chicory coffee. And the cupcakes, of course, with all different frostings, because what was first frost without frosting? Claire had loved it all, but Sydney had only listened when their grandmother talked of frosting. Caramel, rosewater - pistachio, chocolate almond."
Nostalgia
"Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it."
Learning
"Once he'd asked, 'Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room.'She had laughed and said, 'I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed."
Memory
"Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress."
Identity
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