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Quotes by Author
"The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn't look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion."
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"It was the simplest of acts, the smallest of gestures, yet no one had taken the time to do something kind for her in a very long time. No one had made her feel special. Unbeknownst to her, a single, unfamiliar tear fell down her cheek as her worn and wounded body fell into a deep, safe slumber."
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"I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die."
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"Don't jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire."
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"If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them."
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"Your hair is like butterflies, Sebastian said, giggling like a child.'That's nice, Firen said impatiently. 'Keep moving.'Fantastic. I always like my days better with a touch of insanity, Gabriella quipped."
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"Your calling is you unique area of expertise."
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"The Reality of the Creator God of Christianity blatantly reveals itself in His majestic handy-work."
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"Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity."
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"Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure."
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"If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best."
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"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
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"Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!"
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"Your race is your diminishing life."
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"Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins."
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"I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality."
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"Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted."
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"You are encased in my heart."
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"This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do."
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"Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do."
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"Life is short. Focus on what really matters most, you should change your priorities over time."
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"I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway."
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"Those who win never give up, those who give up never win."
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"Embracing doubt is sometimes threatening, as we fear losing our faith if we explore our doubts. Following that thought, if one loses one's faith, then as some religions dictate, that individual cannot enter heaven. Since heaven is the reward of an earthly existence, doubt becomes the enemy of this reward."
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"Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it."
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"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life."
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"It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other."
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"Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows."
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"How often do we truly feel accepted?Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something? How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?How do we gratefully accept rejection?With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection."
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"If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed."
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"Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a more comfortable, better-focused lifestyle. Over time this relationship blossoms into a higher and more efficient form of Self-Management. With practice, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and physical manifestations merge into a more harmonious state. This state of being allows for a softer, more gentile approach to life that not only benefits the individual, but the community as a whole."
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"Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?"
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"Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you."
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"I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up."
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"Stay safe. I want to see you again when all this is done."
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