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"I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page."

"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."

"Relax your heart and let go into the infinite ocean of love within you."

"It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything."

"All men are 'real men', whether they wear KingGees or a pink tutu."

"Three hundred and thirty-two kids between the age of one month and fourteen years had been confined within the FAYZ.One hundred and ninety-six eventually emerged.One hundred and thirty-six lay dead.Dead and buried in the town plaza.Dead and floating in the lake or on its shores.Dead in the desert.In the fields.Dead of battles old and recent. Of starvation and accident, suicide and murder.It was a fatality rate of just over 40 percent."

"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."

"The surest cure for selfishness is to continually practice random acts of kindness."

"It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions."

"You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are."

"Right on the edge of fear was where trust could grow."

"Why should we change that which makes us unique?"

"A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ..."

"If I had amnesia, I know I would fall in love with you all over again."


"Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing.Suffering begets rage, and while the prosperous turn a blind eye, or nod off which is always the same thing as shutting your eyes, the hate of the unprosperous masses has hits torch lit by some malcontent or warped mind dreaming away in a corner, somewhere, and it begins to examine society. Examination by hate is a terrible thing."

"I believe in nonjudgmental love, it is in the fundament of all creation."

"Motivated authors sacrifice TV time, sleep, hobbies, and even family time."

"Celebrate every moment, every day. Celebrate every beauty, all the way."

"Others behavior towards us is a reflection of our own behavior, it's a MIRROR."

"Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace."

"The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk."

"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul."

"Dance with your sacred rhythm."

"I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too..."


"Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness."

"There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk."

"When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child."

"The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul."

"The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living."

"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."

"Don't talk while having food was only meant to be in integrity with food."

"There is rarely a chance for life to remain constant."

"Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one."

"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."

"There's always an opportunity to fish for something " even if it's just for laughs or ideas."

"I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things."
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