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Quotes by Author
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
90
"There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater."
90
"A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work."
90
"He was the most wickedly handsome creature she had ever seen in all her days. His hair was black as night, his stature large, his muscles were etched with precision into his smooth skin, every last ripple chiseled into wicked perfection."
90
"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
89
"Stay inspired by feeding your mind with positive, healthy, mental food through reading or listening to good inspirational, motivational, and educational material."
89
"The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
89
"Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain."
89
"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference."
89
"Everybody, including you, potentially can be great."
88
"Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."
88
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
88
"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
88
"Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt."
88
"Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain."
88
"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
88
"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."
87
"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
Time,
87
"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. "By making him suffer, he said."Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?..."
87
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."
Love,
87
"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain."
87
"I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head."
87
"Wrath: look at how their folklore portrays our species. There's Dracula for Christ's sake, an evil bloodsucker who preys on the defenseless. There's piss-poor B movies and porn. And don't get me started on the whole Halloween thing. Plastic fangs. Black capes. The only thing the idiots got right are that we drink blood and that we can't go out in daylight. The rest is bullshit, fabricated to alienate us and stimulate fear in the masses. Or just as offensive, the fiction used to create some kind of mystique for bored humans who think the dark side is a fun place to visit."
86
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
86
"If you fail, you will be sad. But if you quit, you will be mad. Don't give up on your dreams. Get up. You can do it!"
86
"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep."
86
"Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
86
"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
86
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
85
"The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; remembrance of a particular form is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years."
85
"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
85
"Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them."
85
"When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you."
85
"Don't let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it's hopeless."
84
"But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster."
84
"In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined."
84
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