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"Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation."
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"Being together does not always mean happy."
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"You're causing the world to spin again, Keirah,' Wharick teased about her druid gift with nature. 'You out of control? Do you need something to settle you down? he asked."
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"For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; today's image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures on the cover of a bestselling magazine, whereas the older image was of an Indian man with long beard sitting in a cave wearing a loin cloth."
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"His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain - drenched clothes."
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"I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content."
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"Be honest with yourself. You can't be the best you can be unless you know who you really are."
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"Life is short. Things can change very suddenly. Make the best of every situation. Look for the silver lining. Maintain a positive mindset. Remain optimistic. Never give up hope. Savor every day you are given. Live with gratitude. Appreciate even the smallest things. Genuinely do the best you can, and once you do, don't dimish this by undermining your efforts by whatever limitations you face. Acceptance can be hard at times, but it is necessary to keep moving forward. In order to deal with situations as they come in the best manner possible, we must let go of things we have no control over. Energy must go towards the here and now. Be cognizant of your blessings, of how precious life is. Live with gratitude and appreciate every moment."
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"May the sacredness of Christmas gladden your heart."
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"We must know how to properly manage the abundance of God's riches that He will give to those who are ready to establish His Kingdom on this earth."
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"As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty."
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"What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?"
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"It's misleading or deceptive in a way that such skills are learned like any other - simple practice, sincere investment over time. Yes, like small steps, one at a time, to cross the bridge. Just a single step today."
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"The oppressor will always despise their victims."
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"Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there."
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"His sense of "justice had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement, a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence."
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"He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird."
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"Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening."
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"I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the sufferings of others I also have for my own. And so all my suffering is crushed under the foot of my disdain."
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"I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child."
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"I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD."
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"Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared."
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"But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me."
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"Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things."
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"We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same."
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"WINTER SPOILER KINDACinder stared at his whitened knuckles and struggled for something meaningful to say. Her grand plan of revolution and change had just begun and already she felt like a failure. This seemed worse than failing the people of Luna, though. She'd failed the people she cared about most in the universe.Finally, she whispered, "I'm so sorry, Thorne.""Yeah," he said. "Me too."
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"The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise."
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"Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success."
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"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
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"Seek First God's Kingdom And His Righteousness."
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"Aversion to conflict will always generate conflict."
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"The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would do much more than any man can with all his analytical perspectives."
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"Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble."
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"You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far."
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"America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the people dispensed with what was difficult or inconvenient to acknowledge. So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were no plaques to commemorate mistakes. But the past didn't forget. History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required period exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences."
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"To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity."
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"Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries."
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"Each step you take from Jesus Christ, brings you closer to hell."
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