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"He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."

"I felt unready to hold myself responsible for the decision if I slept with him."

"Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information? Bones asked, getting back to the subject. 'You to take me, she replied at once. 'Not gonna happen! I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That's when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand."

"When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want."

"Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him."

"People care much more for how things look than how things are."

"Some things are too big to be seen, some emotions are too huge to be felt."

"Dresden's not gone, I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. "He's here. I touched Will's bare chest, on the left side. "Here. Without him, without what he's done over the years, you and I would never have been able to pull this off."No, he agreed. "Probably not. Definitely not."There are a lot of people he's taught. Trained. Defended. And he's been an example. No single one of us can ever be what he was. But together, maybe we can."

"Chances don't approach you,it's you who approach chances."

"Christmas is a holy time to rekindle our love for another."

"It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know."

"Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows."


"Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God."


"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free."

"Stop, think and use your brain! Don't' rush through life. Take time to reflect as you define what success means to you. Always remember you are one of a kind!"

"It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time."

"Those who are growing great are always asking "why?" If they fail or lose, they ask "why?" If they succeed or win too, they ask "why?"

"We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. [' Happiness blowing in the wind. ']"

"On the journey to achievement, you must be learning all the time."

"Change is the medium to become who you wish to be."

"Until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always."

"Life should be lived more from the heart and less from the head."

"Imagination is the core of attraction."


"It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain."


"I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.''You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?"

"He Loved perfectly an unperfect me."


"Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure."

"Be confident. Don't seek permission to be yourself."

"It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs."

"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."


"Ignorance leads to destruction."

"I once heard of a class teacher who'd punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who'd punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality."

"Always keep your hand and heart extended to touch someone with love and kindness."
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