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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace."
"Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas."
"The answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ..."
"You can make the best of it or you can let it get the best of you. Those are your two choices."
"Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal."
"His eyes ignited into a color found only in the heart of the sun. ''Yes?''''Yes, already. I'll marry you. Yes. Hell, yes. What am I, stupid?"
"It took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me..."
"How'd you get to be so good at this?""I had a good teacher.""Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass.""I mean you, dummy.""Oh."
"People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't."
"But that is what life is all about, he said. 'It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love."
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
"If you have something genuine to say to another person that would make them feel super awesome about themselves and make their day... SAY IT! The world needs more of that! But no fake BS... the world doesn't need more of that. No."
"The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top."
"We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts."
"Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people."
"You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss."
"Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing."
"Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?"
"You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be."
"And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world."
"You ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled..."
"You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters - only in slaughter and sacrifice and subjugation. But there is no heroism in serving your masters. Real heroism is questioning why you have masters at all.All these stories, all these fantasies, all these superpowers - are designed to steal heroism from you, to make it impossible, fantastical, remote, and unachievable - and make you useful to your masters (as a hit man, if needed). What is the opposite of this?The opposite of fantasy is philosophy. The opposite of mythology is integrity. And integrity is truth in action."
"I take great comfort in believing that life doesn't end, it just changes. Our bodies are pure energy. Energy doesn't die, it transforms. I believe that when we die, we simply change from our human form to our spiritual form and we continue to love, guide and protect the ones we love on earth, as much as our energy will allow. It is the only logical explanation that makes perfect sense. - Tanya Masse aka Comic Strip Mama."
"It's not the win that matters so much as recognizing and respecting its value."
"Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive."
"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"
"We are often so worried about what is going to happen that we can't enjoy what is happening NOW."
"I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over."
"Set aside your repertoire of objections and own 100 percent of your focus."
"Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ..."
"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
"LIFE is what YOU make it. Make sure it's AWESOME."
"Experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted."
"I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful."
"I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people."
"Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft."
"We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive."
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