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Quotes by Australian Authors
"We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us."
"Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena."
"One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you."
"Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices."
"Feel my presence. Recognise my soul. Love my heart."
"Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not."
"May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul."
"The birds of anonymity fly high above in our shared sky. Witness their beauty."
"I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well."
"The thought of you makes my heart melt."
"I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool."
"In the present moment, no past achievement has any bearing, but we perpetually bring ourselves into the here and now; we are our constant companion. By carving the ineffable nature of my soul, rather than simply pursuing the "W," I am able to bring all of my past accomplishments with me into the present. They do hold bearing on today, not because of what I have done, but because of who I have become. This is what matters."
"Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria."
"Blessed are those whose hearts are filled with the warmth of love from another."
"Fulfil my wishes, Obey my commands."
"It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire."
"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."
"I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own."
"Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God."
"The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins."
"I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness."
"When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you."
"You are the keeper of my eternal secrets."
"I'd heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word "utilize instead of "use."
"It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born."
"I have more influence now than when I had the power."
"Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters."
"Tis the moment where a decision is set to alter the course of her destiny. She walks toward the light where he patiently awaits her arrival."
"But it isn't a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns."
"The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day."
"My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist."
"Being a control freak is a sign of a vulnerableself-esteem. The better you feel about yourself the less you need to control everything around you."
"You and I will have our forever."
"It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel."
"One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind."
"There is nothing like another's perspective to remind you that your way is not the right way, it is simply your way."
"Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy."
"Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed."
"I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light."
"A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another."
"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."
"Jiu Jitsu is meant to serve us, not the other way around. It is meant to make you more of whatever it is you already are. It is meant to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is meant to bring to conscious attention all that once went unseen. It is meant to make you more loving. It is meant to make you more wise, but less certain. It is meant to make us humble, yet supremely confident. It is meant to remind us of our frailty while simultaneously making us feel invincible."
"Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness."
"The only way to get an understanding of the true wealth in your life is to acknowledge all the things you have to be grateful for."
"Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted."
"It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn."
"He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them."
"Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense."
"The page we have in our colouring book may appear to have a similar outline but we all vary in the way we fill in the space. Diversity keeps us interesting.Celebrate your differences."
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