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"Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay."

"Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame."

"Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves."


"In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days. Then I'd put on my clothes and I'd walk outside, and the sunlight was brilliant, and the sounds were great. I felt powerful, like a recharged battery. But you know the first bring-down? The first human face I saw on the sidewalk, I lost half my charge right there."

"If we're honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference."

"The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it."

"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."

"Don't just be alive; once you have arrived, find the reason why and make that reason accomplished."

"People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible."


"God has chosen to make the heavens his jurisdiction while at the same time he himself makes it very clear that the earth has been given to man as man's sphere of influence."

"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened."

"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."

"Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!"

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

"Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God."

"Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands."

"Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact."

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."

"Sometimes stepping away from what you desire the most, is the best action to take: because it gives the process the momentum to take its own course."

"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."

"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."


"The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bombed when she passed familiar streets. In many places the sites were being redeveloped. That's what seemed real now " the new buildings and the flats above them. As she hit her stride, Mirabelle smiled. It felt good to be in the big city again and on her way."

"Stress comes from the fear of the unknown, tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy."
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