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Quotes by Author
"Spirituality is the strength of being."
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"I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don't quite understand."
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"If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around."
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"You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission."
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"It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book."
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"Be oblivious to city high-rises, work-related stress and microwave popcorn."
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"I don't mind admitting that I, too, have watched Hilton undergoing the sexual act. I phrase it as crudely as that because it was one of the least erotic such sequences I have ever seen. She seemed to know what was expected of her and to manifest some hard-won expertise, but I could almost have believed that she was drugged. At no point did her facial expression match even the simulacrum of lovemaking."
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"Detachment is being apathetic or aloof to other people, while un-attachment is acknowledging and honoring other people, while choosing not to let them influence your emotional well being. Detached would mean I do not care, while un-attached means I care, although I am not going to alter my emotional state due to your emotions, words, or actions."
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"Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful."
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"What is true for you?What makes your heart smile?When do you feel most yourself?What do you love to do?Ask yourself these questions, and live your life, as best you can,in accordance with the answers.This is how you taste happiness.This is how you love yourself. This is how you grow."
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"There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all."
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"Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess."
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"He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made."
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"It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes."
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"First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas."
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"It's not that they're small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It's not that they're small. It's that we're so far away."
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"It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company."
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"Refusing someone's kind words can cause the one doing the complimenting to feel bad. Not only might they regret trying to be nice, but you may have cut off your chances of being complimented by them ever again. Being humble is one thing; being rude is another. Practice receiving compliments with grace, dignity, appreciation, and gratitude. The perfect response to a fine compliment is simply, "Thank you!"
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"It is the time that delivers greatness to people."
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"Maybe you're holding on too tight, and the magic comes in letting go."
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"Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely."
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"Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep."
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"Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos."
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"Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him."
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"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."
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"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
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"Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more."
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"Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person's latent fears constantly whisper warnings."
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"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."
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"Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn't matter."
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"Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost."
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