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"I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out."
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"So,' he says. 'When's the big day? Have you set a date yet?''What?' I startle. 'For what?''For the day you're going to stop being such a dumbass,' he says shooting me a sharp look.'Oh.' I cringe. Kick at the air. 'Yeah, that'll probably never happen.''Yeah, you're probably right.''Shut up."
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"Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind."
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"A relationship is a process. If you have nothing to learn - you have a slave to teach. 's why schools are effective."
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"A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands."
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"We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel."
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"Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you."
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"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz."
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"Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered."
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"Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back."
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"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."
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"Reading is awsome."
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"Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory."
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"It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. "Tread lightly on the paths," he had told me. "Others will come when you have gone."That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two."
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"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
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"Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God."
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"Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys."
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"I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore."
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"In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose."
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"Math has never made any sense to me."
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"Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one."
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"Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His wind, His trials, oxygen for joy's fire. Leave the hand open and be. Be at peace. Bend the knee and be small and let God give what God chooses to give because He only gives love and whisper a surprised thanks. This is the fuel for joy's flame. Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will. And I can empty. I can empty because counting His graces has awakened me to how He cherishes me, holds me, passionately values me. I can empty because I am full of His love. I can trust."
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"Food shouldn't be half-bad. It should be all good."
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"If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another."
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"Alecto, do you think we have fallen from heaven, or do you think we are falling towards it?"
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"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."
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"Polishing the gold in others will not only make them feel better about themselves, but it will also elevate you in their eyes as well as your own. Gifting others with your words of affirmation is an easy yet generous way to spread goodwill and create a positive experience for everyone."
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"To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience."
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"If you want to achieve success, there cannot be a Plan B."
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"A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently. A story calls upon us...as individuals-and we like that. Stories benefit the human mind."
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"Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence."
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"Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route."
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"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."
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"Doctrines, no matter which path of human endeavor they come from, must serve the humans, not the humans serving the doctrines. "Love thy neighbor - is a great doctrine, but more importantly, it is an unparalleled piece of magnificent human teaching " as such, whoever practices it, becomes a better human, a real human. On the other hand, there is another doctrine that says "God may purify the believers and destroy the disbelievers " now would you, as a real conscientious human being, consider this one as a great beneficial doctrine or teaching for humanity? Far from being great, doctrines like this are the ones that compel the human society to forget its innate humanism."
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"A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery."
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