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Quotes by Author
"It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote."
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"When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable."
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"Be there when you are there. Don't try to juggle all the roles in your life. Focus on the role you are playing and do it to the best of your ability."
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"In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'"
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"I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it."
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"Just because there are things you still want, that doesn't mean you can't feel gratitude for all the wealth and abundance already in your life."
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"I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly."
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"It's effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It's challenging to let go of someone you care about and it's exceedingly difficult to let go of an ideal and a belief in someone because what exacerbates the disappointment of finding out they weren't who they presented themselves to be, is the betrayal of it."
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"MacKensie, much as men don't like to share this fact, we rarely die from not getting off."
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"If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm."
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"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success."
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"It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed."
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"I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other if we can have each other at a digital distance-not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and demanding. When we clean them up with technology, we move from conversation to the efficiency of mere connection. I fear we forget the difference."
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"My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world."
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"You build walls to fortify your heart,and blame on others for your loneliness."
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"If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?"
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"Simple misunderstanding, and couple forget the lovely moments they spent before marriage and during honeymoon."
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"He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand."
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"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."
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"Worrying doesn't change anything. Focus your energy on the outcome you do want and then do what you can to make it happen."
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"Don't hate me forever, Arty,' whispered Holly. 'I couldn't bear that."
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"Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production."
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"The mountains themselves call us into greater stories."
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"It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly."
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"Anything man can make, man can destroy."
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"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."
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"Our body hears whatever is in our minds and responds."
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"One of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself is, 'how do i hold myself back? 'once you know the answer you can get out of your way."
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"In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
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"The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less."
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"You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings."
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"People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't."
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"My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.I counted.It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I'd ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What's the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said."
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"She'd shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he'd ever known. And if she was, then Grisha weren't inherently evil. They were like anyone else-full of the potential to do great good, and also great harm. To ignore that would make Matthias the monster."
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"You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know."
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"The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness."
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"The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless."
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"I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy."
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