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Quotes by Author
"God will never disappoint us. If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true."
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"Be Mindful of your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your reality."
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"So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?"
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"I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you weren't, Charlie. At those times, you weren't being his friend at all. Because you weren't honest with him."
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"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
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"Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved."
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"Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought."
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"The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance."
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"She was everything he'd ever hoped for but hadn't known existed."
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"Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your failures. Know your fears. Know your irritations. Know your pleasures, joy and happiness. Know your mental wounds. Go deeper and examine every feeling you have."
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"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
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"When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did."
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"Porkie and me came to some sort of agreement with the screw and the nurse, and after some haggling we gave ourselves up. After that, I never saw my friend Porkie again until we appeared at Edinburgh High Court, where we each got six years on top of our sentences for one night of madness. That just shows you how drugs can get a grip over your mind."
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"Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out."
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"She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led."
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"Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my 'yesterday' to construct the sturdy portal to my 'tomorrow."
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"Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God."
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"We don't get to choose what happens to us-but we always get to choose how we react to it."
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"You must stay away from the one who brings nothing but heartache and death. Do you hear me? He brings nothing but death. Always has."
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"It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me."
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"If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it."
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"A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story."
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"Consistency and accuracy instills believability."
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"The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book."
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"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
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"A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object."
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"If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential to do great good can handily rival the tendency to carry out great evil. And out of that understanding may I commit in my own life to make certain that in such a critical rivalry I will ensure that towers will never fall because of me, but people will be raised up due to me."
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"People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it is they were called to do.."
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"Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We are all creatures of our own devising."
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"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."
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"There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick."
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"Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there."
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"When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart."
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"Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth talking to."
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"One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is."
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"If you aspire to be a sparrow you will never be an eagle!"
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