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"Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small."


"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."

"Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!"

"Difficulty provides a platform for exposing Jesus to the world through your joy in the Lord."

"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."

"We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas."

"We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."

"It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so."

"In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities."

"I love you more than the cookie monster loves cookies."

"Your life will always echo your relationship with yourself."

"Be generous, giving grows your spirit just as reading grows your intellect."

"If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm."

"If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it."

"There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no."

"Grasp the opportunity to make each day exceptional."

"At times, productivity means doing nothing at all."


"The devil hates the people who build the broken walls, he detests those who restore them."

"Motivation is soothing medicine for the soul."

"There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes... He felt that it would take all time, more than he could ever spare, to glue these strange cumbersome pictures into the scrap-book of his life."

"The day I started fearing regret is the day I decided to never stop."

“My personal sense of presence that I kind of carry around with me is along the lines of ‘Somebody has to be there first before acting. The more one is there, the better the results in whatever you're doing—more precision, subtlety, relevance—and much less dispersion and depletion. When you watch someone who is good at this, you can sometimes feel like they're actually stretching out the walls of possibility in a given situation, literally creating open space. Much of this comes only through time and experience, eventual understanding that how one does something, not the specifics of action, is what impacts others most.’”

"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."

"There is always time to die, but never time to live."

"We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception."

"From up here, the city below looked calm. Peaceful. Serene.It was a lie. Mia could feel the lie in her bones, in the foreboding creeping along the fine hairs on her skin. But mostly she could feel it in her head, where preparations were underway across Romane to meet the coming chaos."


"You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us."

"People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne."

"If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on."

"The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand."


"The world is not to be run by miracles but by principles."

"We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific."


"Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. "How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?"

"I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now."

"Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution."

"Only allow what contributes positively into your life."
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