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"Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?"
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"I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one."
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"Dating is like nightfall--there's got to be a mourning after."
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"The Broaden-and-Build Theory in Positive Psychology suggests that positive emotions initiate upward spirals of positivity which contribute to our optimal well-being. It is no wonder positive people are more likely to make a positive impact!"
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"What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?"
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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
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"Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us."
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"Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world."
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"For others to be generous it requires that a person accept their generosity for the cycle to be completed."
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"People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children."
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"Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:FirstNever follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
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"To be respected, respect others."
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"Remember, this type doesn't really believe He'll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay."
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"Cosmetic surgery is not 'cosmetic,' and human flesh is not 'plastic.' Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: 'a nip,' a 'tummy tuck.'...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice."
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"Heart turned to me, his face thoughtful. "Yesterday morning. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn't been home for two days before that. He smiled at me. "You were supposed to be the Alpha's eye candy.Adam laughed."What? I asked him. "You don't think I'd be good eye candy? I looked down at my overalls and grease-stained hands. I'd torn another nail to the quick."Honey is eye candy, said Ben apologetically. "You're . . . just you."Mine, said Adam, edging between Heart and me. "Mine is what she is.""
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"Every traveler should make their own observation."
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"A tired starving dog so thin and frail it looks like it could be knocked over by the wind. But it's staring at me. Unafraid. Mouth opened. Tongue lolling. I want to laugh out loud. I glanced around quickly before scooping the dog into my arms. I don't need to give my father anymore reasons to castrate me, and I don't trust my soldiers not to report something like this. That I would play with the dog."
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"If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery, he informed, his tone steady and cold. 'Is that explicit enough?'Oh, don't be so dramatic, I said cheerfully, getting in touch with my inner smartass."
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"The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together."
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"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."
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"Re is a prefix, which when used in front of a word, changes its meaning to convey a fresh beginning, a do-over, a repeat, a shift in perspective, or an opportunity to create something new. When you add the prefix Re, you are activating the power of the word to head in a new direction to build momentum for positive change and transformation."
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"The Ferryman will transport us across the moat, Chris informed. 'Yeah. This seems legit, Gabriella quipped as Chris helped her onto the boat. Andrew followed behind.'Are you sure this isn't a trick? Egnatious asked.Again, uncertainty filtered into Chris's blue eyes, but he nodded anyway. 'This is the only way."
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"They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss."
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"Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return."
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"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."
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"What do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?"
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"If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people."
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"Allowing yourself to be a conduit for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune cannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that well known saying, she has rarely been known to knock."
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"If hope is a feeling that can defeat fear,then at that time I walked uphill through a bed of snow, my tracks were of joyful determination."
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"It's coming, a battle between Starclan and The Dark Forest and every warrior will be called upon to fight."
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"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."
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"Don't be a witness. Be an activist."
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"At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement."
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"Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen."
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"There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does."
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"Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake."
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"I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me."
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"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."
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"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
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