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Quotes by Author
"When you wear a mask, you are not real."
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"The only way to predict the future is to create it. You don't let it happen. You make it happen. How? Stop regretting the past and start learning from it. Let go of guilt by leaning into God's grace. Quit beating yourself up and let the Spirit of God heal your heart. You cannot divorce yourself from the past. You are married to it forever. But God wants to reconcile your past by redeeming it. God is in the recycling business, He makes recycled goods out of wasted lives."
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"Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her."
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"Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand."
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"His lips, his lips should've been illegal."
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"If the modern Protestant churches must maintain her place of relevance in the society, we would need to review where we missed it and how we have diverted from the teachings of the Protestants."
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"Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both."
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"Survivors can't always choose their methods."
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"How often do you have to drink? "Every night, to feel good. Every few nights, to stay sane. "Have you ever bitten anyone? "No. I'm not a murderer. "Does it have to be fatal every time? The biting? Couldn't you just drink some of a person's blood, then walk away? "I can't believe you're asking me this, Snow. You, who can't walk away from half a sandwich."
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"She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on one word: guilt."
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"The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions."
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"It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing."
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"You can't change the past. It's already done. Looking back only keeps you there."
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"Women are not wrong if they react instinctively " often jealously " against their partner's interest in porn, since pornography is actually, neurologically, a woman's destructive rival for her man's sexual capabilities."
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"We use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual .."
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"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
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"God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us."
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"It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God."
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"Losing excess fats through exercise is important, but losing useless friends is urgent. Treat urgent things first!"
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"The light of the Kingdom of God remains the strongest weapon for you to fight with in order to have a continuous victory over the enemies."
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"He felt that every sorrow was less than that which separation must produce, and that to share adversity with her was greater happiness than the enjoyment prosperity apart from her."
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"I still watch her now, like I always did, and she watches me, her brown eyes looking out from a wolf's face. This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one.I won't let this be my last good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper cranes of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace."
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"We were right to come here, if only because the ocean reminded you that impossible things were possible. Miles and miles of the deepest waters that moved like clockwork were possible. Creatures like jellyfish and sea urchins were, too. Millions and jillions of the tiniest grains of sand to form one long, soft beach - yep, even that was possible."
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"Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is tempermental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you. Changes its mind..... But hatred, now. That's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but hatred cradels you. It's so soothing. I feel infinetly better now"
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"I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies."
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"What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?"
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"I was in love with him. I knew that much was true. Love was the swelling, hopeful feeling in my chest every time I saw him. Love was the way I could forget about everything when I was with him. Love was the catch in my breath when he looked at me in his intense way. Love was the gasp he could draw out of me with the simplest of touches. Love was the way I could... I could be myself around him, know that I didn't need to be perfect or worry about what he was thinking, because he accepted me."
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"Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!"
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"Any idiot can put up a website."
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"I believe the era of the militant lady is back."
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"Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind."
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"A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart."
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"Our body is the sacrifice that God requires at this hour."
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"Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief."
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"I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake."
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"Training is the word we use now. To train means to teach a particular skill over a period of time. Every time you get up, show up, work out, you are training yourself to be better, to live happier and healthier. Don't expect results in a snap. Remember, change takes however long it takes."
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"What a joy to meet and be around with people who're self-aware with healthy self-esteem. They embrace you and make your stay with them enjoyable."
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