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Quotes by Author
"My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy."
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"Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world."
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"A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same."
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"Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences."
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"And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ran back to his car packing away. After making two trips in and out, he waited in the car for his family to come out, in fear they darted through the darkness and pelting cold rain. When everything calmed down, and the house was intact and safe, he returned putting everything back in its place, had the kids go to bed, told his wife he loves her and turned off the light."
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"What was I to you?" he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything."
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"There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking."
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"You'll feel afraid at times. You'll feel weak at times. But remember, fear and weakness are not your enemies. They are forms of evolutionary wisdom in the face of danger. Take some time to assess the situation and shake the weakness and fear off your limbic system."
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"The world is always throwing challenges and questions - which ones does your mission and purpose respond to or seek to solve? Do you know your mission and have you clearly defined the life-issues you intend to address?"
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"He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom."
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"I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you."
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"We do not know the details in a day. How can we foretell the happenings in distant time."
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"Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity."
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"A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me."
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"It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar, unwilling to explore the unfamiliar. In science, we respect the research worker. In literature, we should not always read the books blessed by the majority."
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"Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do."
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"You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it."
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"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."
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"Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night."
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"I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath-resistant, solar-operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there wil always be a place for them."
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"When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four."
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"Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media."
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"To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth."
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"I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern."
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"Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward."
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"After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months."
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"God is the possessor of all earthly riches."
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"Achieving a goal is not the most important part of the process. The destination should never be your primary purpose or objective."
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"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."
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"Of course I realized that the Protestants denominations of the world have grown and matured over the years, but maybe we should not throw away the gains of the old Protestants that brought us to our modern day civilization."
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"Create your own personal brand to stand apart from the crowd. Package your unique talents, style, personality, and products. Show and tell who you are and what you do-to the world."
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"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."
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"The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish."
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"The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations."
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