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Quotes by Author
"It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything."
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"These five values are the organic origins of what could be called intuitive conscience. They are also what we experience personally as our core, essential yearnings, however distorted or confused we may interpret them: to care and be cared for; to share equally in freedom and responsibility; to belong, and to trust that what we belong to will continue; that there exists an objective hierarchy of virtue and wisdom; that there exists that which is unquestionably sacred or divine."
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"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment."
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"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."
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"Breaking up is like unsticking your fingers after you've Superglued them. Love's the glue and no matter how slow and carefully you separate, you're going to lose a little bit of yourself in the process. You're also going to retain a little DNA from the one you lost."
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"Each day, wake up with a plan. Don't just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too much room for discontent, opposition, unhappiness and hopelessness."
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"If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?"
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"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."
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"There is always room at the top - after the investigation."
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"If we want to create Heaven on earth, we must be the creators of Heaven on earth. This means we must choose to infuse honor and love into each experience, with every soul and creature we encounter. In its simplest form, this is what Angels do."
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"The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking."
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"I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!"
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"Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it."
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"Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing."
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"Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly."
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"Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways."
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"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
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"The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces."
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"Although he assumed she'd naturally submit to him, he obviously believed she was still her own person. A strong person."
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"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools."
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"Are You a Parent or a Bully? Mentally and physically abusing your children is NOT okay. Real parenting does NOT consist of bullying your children, belittling your children, manipulating your children, beating your children, or cursing at your children. Children are a blessing! Many women can't get pregnant and/or carry to term. Think about that! Parenting should be taken seriously. Children need LOVE, support, and guidance, NOT a bully! Children shouldn't fear their parents. It's important to create healthy relationships with your children, seriously."
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"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."
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"Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. "Auugghh! he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?""If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try."
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"His true nature, leopard, knight, and prince, 'Just as you see the Wyr in me, I see the Djinn in you.'"
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"ASK YOURSELF: Do you remember a gracious hostess, an engaging guest, or someone who worked the room like a honey bee in a flower garden? They would glide from one person to the next, spreading good will and cheer, being the glue that brought everyone together with ease."
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"I don't believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief."
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"If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger."
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"Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view."
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"No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed."
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"The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe."
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"Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to expressWith a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,The bleeding of my heart."
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"Listening actively confirms for people that you are positively receiving and thoroughly understanding the message they are conveying."
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"Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey:The sages who have compassed sea and land,Their secret to search out and understand,My mind misgives me if they ever solveThe scheme on which the universe is planned."
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"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."
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"What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it."
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"For me and my friends, for people who think the way I do over there, for all ordinary Soviet citizens, America evokes a mixture of admiration and compassion...You're a country of the future, a young country, with yet untapped possiblities, enormous territory, great breadth of spirit, generosity, magnanimity. But these qualities-strength, generosity, and magnanimity-are usually combined in a man and even in a whole country with trustfulness. And this has already done you a disservice several times."
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"Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules."
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