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Quotes by Author
"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."
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"Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales."
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"In terms of achieving what I call "being in the right place at the right time, one has to know balance. Not from the outside as an observer, but from the inside out. For every individual, that requires creating a successful balanced interface between what one is compelled by and the essential principles of nature, which we comprehend through our intuitive conscience. Those are our clues to the mystery. When one gets it right, there it is."
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"You magnetize what you are being. You give a smile . . . you get a smile back. If you point fingers with anger, you will get anger in return. If you are obsessing about scarcity, you will continue to live in lack. If you focus on nurturing friends, you will enjoy more enriching relationships."
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"There's something of a restorative quality about spring, where something whispers wild rumors of new beginnings arising from the seemingly dead seeds in our lives. There's something almost cruel about it all, as if there might be some sort of truth about a new life actually being possible. Yet, maybe it is true."
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"Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent."
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"I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do."
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"The foundation upon which any society is built is called values."
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"Change the way you treat your partner. Learn to treat your partner as you would yourself. Change the way you pray for your partner. Learn to pray unselfishly. Change the way you talk to your partner. Learn to speak life to him/her daily. Change the way you show love to your partner. Learn to do something different regularly. The more you change, the more your relationship changes for the better not to make you become bitter."
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"I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations."
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"Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It's intellectual masturbation."
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"I'm barely human. I'm more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can "touch in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!"
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"Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I'm laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear."
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"If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives."
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"There's a story behind every 'I don't believe in love'Period."
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"We were created to be deliverers to the people."
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"Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right."
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"Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity."
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"Being prepared prevents us from getting tripped up by unexpected glitches and surprises."
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"Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all."
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"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."
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"Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries."
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"A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling."
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"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
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"Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth."
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"Because we were the good guys. We were in the right. The universe looks out for people who act with honor in furtherance of an honorable cause. It must, or we never would have gotten this far as a species."We won-this little conflict and a thousand like it-because we were destined to win. The universe will allow no other outcome."
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"Many lies lie between one truth."
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"In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority."
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"Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!"
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"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older."
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"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."
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"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy."
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