"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

Life, Earth, Grace, Rain

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"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

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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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Life, Man, Taste

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

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"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Creation, Truth, Wisdom

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Faith, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Life, Positivity, Happiness, Love

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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

Humility

"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."

Lust

"And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?"

Anticipation

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

Observation

"Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly, eventually you land on all the properties."

Divorce

"They've not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."

Obscurity

"We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe."

Existentialism

"In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse was matched by that of the farmer; the once-green ferny lives crushed into coal's fossiliferous strata were no more anonymous and obliterated than Clarence's own life would soon be, in a wink of earth's tremendous time. Without Biblical blessing the physical universe became sherry horrible and disgusting. All fleshy acts became vile, rather than merely some. The reality of men slaying lambs and cattle, fish and fowl to sustain their own bodies took on an aspect of grisly comedy--the blood-soaked selfishness of a cosmic mayhem."

Existentialism

"The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die."

Mortality

"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."

Parenting