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"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."

"You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you."

"Jesus reveals who He is through the living Word."

"True friends are like diamonds. They shine for you even on the darkest days."

"You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!"

"I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things."

"When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out."I'm such an idiot, he said.Cath fell between his knees and hugged him."I can't believe I said that, he said. "I can't even go nine hours without seeing you."

"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."

"You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know.""Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want.""Anything?""Anything that doesn't require doing anything.""That's nothing, then.""Is it?""Yes.""Well, that's something."

"I've seen you burn trained vampires to a crisp and swat supernatural beings away with your wings as if they were insects bothering you, and my driving is terrifying?""Well it's not good."

"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."

"Time alone helps us to remember who we are."

"Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school."

"One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences."

"You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day."

"Caring is not bossing somebody around, it only shows you're very insensitive to other peoples' feelings."

"Nature does not know of the challenges that face us. No matter what money difficulties we have, the sun will continue to shine. If it is health challenges we face, the grass will continue to grow. If a relationship is causing us grief, the ocean breeze will continue to blow. Taking a breath away from our challenges, and recognizing the nature around us, can help open the door to our Divine nature and allow the healing to begin."

"Listen carefully, as this may be something of a shock to you." "A shock? You mean all that was just the precursor?"

"Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell."

"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."

"I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray."

"Heaven is all around you. You just can't see us because we are vibrating at a higher level than you are. It's kind of like a dog whistle. There is a noise, a pitch so high that the human ear cannot detect it but it is there nonetheless, for don't you see all the dogs come running!When we cross Rainbow Bridge we become only love and love is the highest level of vibration; the highest "pitch so to speak. This is why you cannot see us. We are here, only gone from your sight until one day you are the same vibration as we are. When you vibrate in love all the time you will not have to ask again if I am here, you will know that I am here with you."


"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."

"As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially."


"You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow."

"Power over others is weakness disguised as strength."

"There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb."

"Don't let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth."

"No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me."

"Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be."Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a laugh. "that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do!Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years""We'll fix that" Kelsier promised."

"I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen."


"The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it."

"Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives."

"She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable."

"I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend."

"Joy is something we can't manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us."
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