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"But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too."

"Encouragement is the engine of life."

"Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re - marrying. Statistics show if you re - marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re - bounded to fail again!"

"Most of us believe outside situations shape our attitudes when, in fact, it is our view of the situations that shape our attitudes."
Fact,

"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!"

"Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening."

"When you continually tell Life: 'there are things that I lack and things that I want', Life will return that exact experience. But when you continually tell Life: 'I have all that I need and am free to serve others', Life will return that exact experience: you will have all you need and will be free to serve others."

"I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did."

"Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out."

"Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, "Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed."

"Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned."

"My mother says it can't stay like this, but I believe it will. The Pants are like an omen. They stand for the promise we made to one another, that no matter what happens, we stick together. But they stand for a challenge too. It's not enough to stay in Bethesda, Maryland, and hunker down in air-conditioned houses. We promise one another that someday we'd get out in the world and figure some stuff out."

"Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan."

"The more actively engaged you are in the present moment, the more aware you will become of yourself; your actions and reactions. As you become more aware, you will increase your ability to change what it is you do and how."

"I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough."

"All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there."

"When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win."

"Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly."

"He has a wide gait and I struggle to appear casual as I attempt to match his stride. His shirt's back on, which is a sin. He could definitely give Echo's guy a run for his money in the abs department."

"Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes, like Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Leo Tolstoy or Francois Rabelais, a very harsh critic indeed. The others are sycophants, courtiers, servitors, entertainers. Shakespeare was a sychophant; however, he was and is also a very good poet, and so we continue to read him."

"My competence is my complete confidence in Christ."

"Challenge your assumptions and identify your limiting beliefs. Every time you find yourself thinking that you can't do something, ask yourself, 'why not?"

"The true definition of innocence is unfiltered perception."


"Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
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"Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you."

"Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free."

"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."

"What a life we live. Full of questions, adventures, stories, mistakes, good, quests, bad, miracles, lessons, people, blessings, journeys, inventions, music, animals, history, cultures, religions, prophecies, planets, stars, careers, movies, plants, hate, love, and so much more."


"In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation."

"Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself."

"Shadows go in front of you, leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we lose ourselves in darkness."


"The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence."

"Don't depend on others to fuel your self-belief. Develop your self-belief so that it becomes self-sustaining."
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