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Quotes by Author
"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."
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"In your daily life, let your destined visions be farther than your gifted sight and your ultimate joy be vibrant than your demeaning worries. Think big, dream big."
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"It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised."
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"We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground."
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"You do not have the right to waste time."
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"You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals."
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"Prayer is pouring your heart to the one you love."
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"Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off."
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"We both must burn this midnight oil together. You're just as new to me as I am you."
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"The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things."
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"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."
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"The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people's perception of you is a reflection of them, your response to them is an awareness of you."
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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
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"Not all generous hearts are gullible enough to be screwed by cold, calculating, business propaganda. A person who has an eye for what is right and the truth will immediately spot the cunning ways of a selfish "user and hungry grabber" who took initiative to grab the originality from other people they tried to profile, fake befriended and extracted favours."
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"Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey."
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"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."
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"Sometimes life isn't what we want, it's what we get."
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"For years I tried to help people with simple things, such as tension relief through breathing and relaxation, but all they wanted were the drugs. They wanted to numb themselves. They did not want to face their fears or feel better through their own efforts - and they certainly did not want to be illuminated."
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"Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals."
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"We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the unreal twilight, fitfully like the echo of voices laughing down some alley, geniality returned to me and flesh. Against the gateway, against some cedar tree I saw blaze bright, Neville, Jinny, Rhoda, Louis, Susan and myself, our life, our identity. Still King William seemed an unreal monarch and his crown mere tinsel. But we, against the brick, against the branches, we six, out of how many million millions, for one moment out of what measureless abundance of past time and time to come, burnt there triumphant. The moment was all; the moment was enough."
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"Sorry, I didn't see the big X with the words Top Secret Government Laboratory on the map, did you?"
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"IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding."
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"Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he's not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary."
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"This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped in a forever he would choose this very moment. The black night, the few yellow leaves still clinging to the bare trees, the beautiful dark-eyed woman drinking whiskey, the way she gazed at him, the way she made him feel."
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"Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants."
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"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."
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"The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways."
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"Trust is the base for all relations. If it breaks, then it's not easy to rejoin. It's very easy to say 'I don't trust you', but the pain these words cause is immense."
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"You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey."
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"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."
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"Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life."
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"My chest clenched as I looked down at the oil-stained asphalt. Here but not. Existing but not living. I knew that feeling. Lived it for several years. Some days it felt like I was still wearing that feeling like a heavy jacket buttoned up too tightly."
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"I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways."
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"You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be."
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