inspiration

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84abdf0	I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.	tragedy writer poetry joy work inspiration inspirational-quotes happiness life love euripides muses dancing sing creativity poet	Anne Carson
430ce70	He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.	inspiration god love truth preach student scholar teach christian study	Elizabeth George
0e88053	The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.	individuality inspiration sadness life philosophy knowledge-of-self living-in-a-city security human-nature	Lawrence Block
0893ce5	At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength.	inspiration strength truth inspirational-quote promise	Tania Elizabeth
cece941	Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear	inspiration sunrise	Norman Maclean
db3d27a	"But perhaps there is another, more personal reason for my disagreement with Ramin: I cannot imagine myself feeling at home in a place that is indifferent to what has become my true home, a land with no borders and few restrictions, which I have taken to calling "the Republic of Imagination." I think of it as Nabokov's "somehow, somewhere" or Alice's backyard, a world that runs parallel to the real one, whose occupants need no passport or documentation. The only requirements for entry are an open mind, a restless desire to know and an indefinable urge to escape the mundane."	reading inspiration	Azar Nafisi
f2f6906	What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.	inspiration vision	Harold Bloom
351ff9a	They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.	inspiration wisdom satire	Henry David Thoreau
2c81743	I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die.	inspiration	Ilona Andrews
f49df7e	"High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breeze Has stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the snow, Night is not, autumn is not--but the flow Of vast, ethereal and irradiate seas, Poured from the far world's flaming boundaries In waxing tides of unimagined glow. And to that height illumined of the mind he calls us still by the familiar way, Leaving the sodden tracks of life behind, Befogged in failure, chilled with love's decay--	inspiration	Edith Wharton
b17dd81	You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.	universe inspiration life passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss	Chris Prentiss
55558da	The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.	universe reading inspiration inspire passages-treatment conscious-awareness holistic-health passages-rehab passages-ventura passages-malibu consciousness quotes	Chris Prentiss
61e5723	the gods often mumble	inspiration religion revelation	Margaret Atwood
7252af9	"Time often is forgiving and dismissive of the influences, because they recede. We look at Sgt. Pepper and we go "wow! How did they ever think that up?" but of course, if you got into Paul McCartney's bedroom, found his record collection at the time, you would find out. But the clues are gone. It's like evolution: there are certain pure situations that hang around longer, but the ones that got them there don't have time to leave fossils. We have a giraffe, we have a horse. But where's the horse with the long neck? The link species disappear."	inspiration	Michka Assayas
da63284	A relationship is like a garden. To create a condition that will cause your plants to thrive and produce abundantly, you must weed, water, fertilize, and care for the plants in your garden. You must also know about the special needs of the plants you're caring for. Some need more or less light than others, some need more or less water than others, and some need special fertilizers.	relationships inspiration life love the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
5915692	The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue.	thoughts relationships memories friends inspiration family death life love end memory nostalgia	John Irving
1d87042	She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience.	inspiration ideas	Wade Davis
b1715c2	Also, don't forget that some of the most successful people in the world are self-taught programmers. Steve Wozniak, the founder of Apple, is a self-taught programmer. So is Margaret Hamilton, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on NASA's Apollo Moon missions; David Karp, founder of Tumblr; Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter; and Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram.	inspiration programming-quotes programming	Cory Althoff
9bc2e2b	Jag har inget emot att do, bara inte i morgon, jag har en del jag skall gora forst.	inspiration humor inspirational	Astrid Lindgren
51f0a46	Haydon was more than his model, he was his inspiration, the torch-bearer of a certain kind of English calling which - for the very reason that it was vague and understated and elusive - had made sense of Guillam's life till now.	inspiration elusiveness vagueness understatement vague englishmen englishness english	John le Carré
3868884	For that is what you are, that is who you are - you are an author. You cannot cease to write any more than you can cease to breathe...This difficult season will pass - your eyes and mind will inevitably be opened once more to the wealth of ideas all around you...And even if the ideas around you fall short of what you seek - even if, as you say, you have not the heart to write... perhaps it is your heart you ought to write of. - Laurie to Jo, on writing	writer writing inspiration writing-from-the-heart ideas	Trix Wilkins
60d5c1e	Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.	wrong feelings courage inspiration wisdom worth-it landry pearl-in-the-mist v-c-andrews right	V.C. Andrews
d331c61	I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving.	hopelessness inspiration	Jane Hamilton
767590c	"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."	reading inspiration word-choice rhetoric maturation vocabulary	Harold Bloom
738e2b8	"She glanced around at the tombstones. "You're surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job." "You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones."	inspiration death life good-deeds graveyard caretaker tombstones	David Baldacci
8fe830c	"In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete. When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by the Desana hunters when they die. Were there no men dying, there would be no birds or fish being born. I like this idea. Morrie likes it, too. The closer he gets to goodbye, the more he seems to feel we are all creatures in the same forest. What we take, we must replenish. "It's only fair," he says."	inspiration life-lessons life truths	Mitch Albom
98bc81c	Our father came to sleep in our house that night. He carried a small suitcase with a black mourning suit and a pair of polished shoes. Corrigan stopped him as he made his way up the stairs. 'Where d'you think you're going?'Our father gripped the bannister. His hands were liverspotted and I could see him trembling in his pause. 'That's not your room,' sad Corrigan. Our father tottered on the stairs. He took another step up. 'Don't,' said my brother. His voice was clear, full, confidant. Our father stood stunned. He climbed one more step and then turned, descended, looked around, lost. 'My own sons,' he said. We made a bed for him on a sofa in the living room, but even then Corrigan refused to stay under the same roof; he went walking in the direction of the city center and I wondered what alley he might be found in later that night, what fist he might walk into, whose bottle he might climb down inside.	inspiration inspirational let-the-great-world-spin	Colum McCann
487a0b8	"Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary."	christianity inspiration art-quote artists-heart lord	Madeleine L'Engle
9a44284	"Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)"	heaven inspiration truth	Randy Alcorn
60c10bd	What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.	inspiration life philosophy inspirational life-purpose non-12-step-program passage-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss perspective quotes	Chris Prentiss
60d3c4d	The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.	inspiration life metaphysics energy quotes	Chris Prentiss
c260ac9	The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser.	relationships inspiration life the-laws-of-love self-help	Chris Prentiss
aab80f3	"Once you look at your problems as "workout situations," they take on a whole new aspect."	inspiration life the-laws-of-love self-help	Chris Prentiss
adfc118	Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by. We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up.... Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.	good light inspiration darkness raising-children growing-up evil	Madeleine L'Engle
0ae8b16	I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.	passion inspiration waiting-for-ideas waiting-for-inspiration writers-block writer-s-block	Elizabeth Gilbert
b6c3de9	"The coincidences turn up down to the smallest details. There is, for instance, a character who has covered the mirrors with handkerchiefs. Apparently this happens somewhere in , too. And they said, Ah! This is where he got that. Where I got it was when I was in a hotel in Panama and I had washed my handkerchiefs and spread them on the windows and the mirrors to dry--they almost look pressed when they're peeled away that way--a Panamanian friend came in and said, "All the mirrors are covered. Who's dead? What's happened?" I said, "No, I'm just drying my handkerchiefs." Then I found the same incident in in what? 1903 or 1905, whenever was written. This always strikes me as dangerous--finding "sources."	inspiration sources	William Gaddis
f80c234	Stories were heirlooms in these parts.	leadership inspiration motivation narrative legacy storytelling parenthood	Robert Kurson
8664b2d	"[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" --	inspiration intro medical-insurance cancer introduction insurance	Amy Tan
4a824e2	Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on...	inspiration inspire writers	Matthew Pearl
2f939f6	For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The is the mystery. The how is fragile.	artists poets poems books inspiration science scientists ideas novelists creativity	E.L. Konigsburg
24d2cee	Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.	inspiration life-lessons life inspirational richard-clark sylvain-reynard	Sylvain Reynard
ce4e282	Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.	death-and-dying inspiration	Robert Hellenga
8d0063a	There is a kind of despair involved in creation which I am sure any artist knows all about. In art, as in morality, great things go by the board because at the crucial moment we blink our eyes. When is the crucial moment? Greatness is to recognize it and be able to hold it and to extend it. But for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter. And so we let each thing go, thinking vaguely that it will always be given to us to try again. Thus works of art, and thus whole lives of men, are spoilt by blinking and moving quickly on. I often found that I had ideas for stories, but by the time I had thought them out in detail they seemed to me hardly worth writing, as if I had already 'done' them: not because they were bad, but because they already belonged to the past and I had lost interest. My thoughts were soon stale to me. Some things I ruined by starting them too soon. Others by thinking them so intensely in my head that they were over before they began. Projects would change in a second from hazy uncommitted dreams into unsalvageable ancient history. Whole novels existed only in their titles.	writer writing inspiration crucial-moment elusive the-black-prince iris-murdoch creative-process	Iris Murdoch
dc05aba	"Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)"	faith inspiration truth	Randy Alcorn
e0fd8d4	There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.	inspiration music musicians piano	Mitch Albom
e2671a0	"In the Christic tradition, this is the meaning of 'becoming as a little child.' Little children don't think they know what things mean, in fact, they know they don't know. They ask someone older and wiser to explain things to them. We're like children who don't know but think we do. We're meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be, because they demonstrate the power of genuine humility. This is also the explanation of 'beginner's luck.' When we go into a situation not knowing the rules, we don't pretend to know how to figure anything out, and we don't know yet what there is to be afraid of. This releases the mind to create from its own higher power." "	inspiration humility	Marianne Williamson
cb1b2dd	She felt like she'd slipped into another world. For the first time someone knew exactly what the hurt felt like.	romance inspiration love	Karen Kingsbury
59dd835	Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.	inspiration positive-thinking life passages-ventura passages-malibu stress	Chris Prentiss
c472d17	The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.	inspiration	Ray Bradbury
52de787	The Holy Spirit's desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That's because He wants to take us to places we've never been before. To heights we can't even imagine!	prayer inspiration motivation god love holy-spirit desire	Stormie Omartian
3fd2653	FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.	learning inspiration inspirational lesson failure	Maria Shriver
bb49681	Instructors could teach the basic techniques and methods, but a mastery of mechanical knowledge could never make a person an artist. No one could teach creativity or invention. A spark needed to come from within. It must be something unique, something discovered by the individual, a leap of understanding, a burst of insight, the combining of common elements in an unexpected way.	inspiration creativity	Michael J. Sullivan
2b30b9d	Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.	universe sobriety freedom inspiration inspire change happiness life philosophy wisdom good-books alcohol-addiction-treatment curing-addiction drug-addiction-treatment recommended-reading renew sober-living treatment-program holistic-treatment addiction-free non12step holistic-health non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center chris-prentiss sober healing change-the-world health self-improvement self-help	Chris Prentiss
b2a9c9c	You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.	inspiration life new-ideas quotes ideas	Chris Prentiss
6ef74cc	We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.	creative reading writing inspiration life new-ideas read ideas	Chris Prentiss
4205ebb	If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.	relationships inspiration life love the-laws-of-love self-help	Chris Prentiss
ae9533f	When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.	inspiration life philosophy inspirational passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss perspective	Chris Prentiss
fbcbd33	What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.	inspiration inspire motivation coincidences passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss goals self-improvement self-help	Chris Prentiss
eae2cd9	"Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities."	inspiration happiness life philosophy zen-and-the-art-of-happiness chris-prentiss zen	Chris Prentiss
6c00b72	And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful images of all.	suffering inspiration contradictory contrasting juxtaposition henry-and-cato iris-murdoch images	Iris Murdoch
92a8954	Our rate of conductivity is probably determined by an ability, learned or innate, to make the foreground into the background, so that the distractions of the everyday no longer take up our energy. Monks and contemplatives have tried to achieve this by withdrawing from the world---utter concentration, trance-like concentration, is what is needed. Passion, delirium, meditation, even out-of-body, are words we use to describe the heightened condition of superconductivity. It is certainly true that a criterion for true art, as opposed to its cunning counterfeit, is its ability to take us where the artist has been, to this other different place where we are free from the problems of gravity. When we are drawn into the art we are drawn out of ourselves. We are no longer bound by matter, matter has become what it is: empty space and light.	freedom inspiration mediation	Jeanette Winterson
7afb9f0	Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.	leadership inspiration optimism novelty	Geraldine Brooks
307898e	Generally she kept her head down, but on the occasions she raised it she was treated to the most intimate of panoramic views: the scattered possessions of the three people she had created. Several small items made her cry: a tiny woollen bootie, a broken orthodontic retainer, a woggle from a cub-scout tie. She had not become Malcolm X's private secretary. She never did direct a movie or run for the Senate. She could not fly a plane. But here was all this.	motherhood feminism inspiration malcolm-x	Zadie Smith
b68fb29	If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!	inspiration god truth parent guilt	Stormie Omartian
bd9e409	Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.	live work inspiration ideas	Elizabeth Gilbert
b9d68a5	Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?	irony bravery courage inspiration motivation strength success life-lessons humor wisdom adversity achievement-attitude growth	Brandi L. Bates
cf81a39	THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings. A lapis lazuli sky was blanketed by gunmetal gray clouds as it wept crocodile tears across the parched Los Angeles landscape. When Ivy was a child and she overheard adults talking about their break-ups, in her young feeble-formed mind, she imagined it in the most literal of essences. She once heard her mother speaking of her break up with an emotionally unavailable man. She said they broke up on 69th Street. Ivy visualized her mother and that man breaking into countless fragments, like a spilled box of jigsaw pieces. And she imagined them shattered in broken shards, being blown down the pavement of 69th Street. For some reason, on the drive home from Marcel's apartment that next morning, all Ivy could think about was her mother and that faceless man in broken pieces, perhaps some aspects of them still stuck in cracks and crevices of the sidewalk, mistaken as grit. She couldn't get the image of Marcel having his seizure out of her mind. It left a burning sensation in the center of her chest. An incessant flame torched her lungs, chest, and even the back door of her tongue. Witnessing someone you cared about experiencing a seizure was one of those things that scribed itself indelibly on the canvas of your mind. It was gut-wrenching. Graphic and out-of-body, it was the stuff that post traumatic stress syndrome was made of.	sex emotion poetry meaning beauty inspiration humor love wisdom black-authors black-history deity literary-fiction scorpios valentine-s-day wilmington rebirth prose foodies stress knowledge new-york	Brandi L. Bates
7e8b3e4	"As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make"."	leadership inspiration	Walter Isaacson
37d3f1b	He used to say, God is everywhere. In the work of your hands; in the beating of a bird's wings; in the roots of an oak and in the stones of the riverbed. In the rising of the sun. In the heart of a man. In the wonders we know, and those that are beyond our knowing.	inspiration god nature-s-beauty	Juliet Marillier
4779e92	"A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument," Leonardo da Vinci"	inspiration possibility	Walter Isaacson
46a8995	You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.	courage inspiration will	Norton Juster
c8d6d5c	It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability to swim.	life-energy inspiration life	Mark Nepo
f2c9898	Sim, pensa Clarissa, esta na hora deste dia acabar. Nos damos nossas festas; abandonamos nossas familias para viver no Canada; nos nos digladiamos para escrever livros que nao mudam o mundo, a despeito de nossos dons e de nossos imensos esforcos, nossas esperancas mais extravagantes. Vivemos nossas vidas, fazemos nossas coisas, depois dormimos - e simples assim, comum assim. Alguns se atiram da janela, outros se afogam, tomam pilulas; muitos mais morrem em algum acidente; e a maioria de nos, a grande maioria, e devorada por alguma doenca ou, quando temos muita sorte, pelo proprio tempo. Existe apenas isto como consolo: uma hora, em um momento ou outro, quando, apesar dos pesares todos, a vida parece explodir e nos dar tudo o que haviamos imaginado, ainda que qualquer um, exceto as criancas (e talvez ate elas), saiba que a essa seguir-se-ao inevitavelmente muitas outras horas, bem mais penosas e dificeis. Mesmo assim, gostamos da cidade, da manha, e torcemos, como nao fazemos por nenhuma outra coisa, para que haja mais.	inspiration happiness life	Michael Cunningham
1870520	Despite it all, there were heroes who rose above their circumstances. Those who reached out to people of another race with compassion and even love.	understanding heroes history inspiration love southwest ethnicity race	Noel Marie Fletcher
d95334f	A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. Elisabeth Elliot	inspiration	Elisabeth Elliot
9c15e24	In neighborhoods like the oneI grew up in, places that are poor in proxy but rich in rhetoric, the hollies have a saying - I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.	inspiration life-philosophye	Paul Beatty
0d60f3b	What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?	leadership inspiration	Barbara W. Tuchman
c3b7f93	The affair made men feel larger than life.	inspiration	Barbara W. Tuchman
73d9084	If I can give one bit of advice to any drama major, high school theater kid, or inmate who is reading this in a prison library with dreams of being cast in he prison play, its this: write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you ave to take destiny into your own hands.	writing inspiration	Mindy Kaling
a275991	Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.	depression inspiration positive-thinking life non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu emotions stress quotes	Chris Prentiss
6432e34	If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it.	inspiration happiness life passages-ventura passages-malibu quotes	Chris Prentiss
12a34ba	Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.	inspiration inspirational-quotes life passages-ventura passages-malibu perception	Chris Prentiss
26429f3	By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.	inspiration life philosophy inspirational non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss quotes perception	Chris Prentiss
dd2b6fd	Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us.	relationships inspiration life love the-laws-of-love	Chris Prentiss
e80fc52	Each of us is different and has different needs. In addition, our needs change over the course of our relationship. When you are committed to an enduring relationship with someone, you aren't simply concerned about having your needs met. You also go out of your way to care for your loved one, being aware of and adaptable to their changing needs.	relationships inspiration life love the-laws-of-love chris-prentiss self-help	Chris Prentiss
08d5137	If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it.	inspiration wisdom addiction-and-recovery alcohol-treatment-center passages-ventura pax-prentiss substance-abuse passages-malibu alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss alcoholism	Chris Prentiss
f936b4b	The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.	universe inspiration life inspirational metaphysics perfect quotes	Chris Prentiss
f891871	It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it.	funny inspiration just-do-it judgments random	Ann Patchett
b082ab4	Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstancias mais extraordinarias, durante episodios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais distantes de casa e de tudo que nos e familiar, possam existir esses momentos de incontestavel alegria.	inspiration	Elizabeth Kostova

I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.

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Anne Carson

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He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.

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Elizabeth George

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The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.

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Lawrence Block

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At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength.

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Tania Elizabeth

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Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear

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Norman Maclean

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"But perhaps there is another, more personal reason for my disagreement with Ramin: I cannot imagine myself feeling at home in a place that is indifferent to what has become my true home, a land with no borders and few restrictions, which I have taken to calling "the Republic of Imagination." I think of it as Nabokov's "somehow, somewhere" or Alice's backyard, a world that runs parallel to the real one, whose occupants need no passport or documentation. The only requirements for entry are an open mind, a restless desire to know and an indefinable urge to escape the mundane."

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Azar Nafisi

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What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.

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Harold Bloom

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They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

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Henry David Thoreau

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I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die.

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Ilona Andrews

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"High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breeze Has stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the snow, Night is not, autumn is not--but the flow Of vast, ethereal and irradiate seas, Poured from the far world's flaming boundaries In waxing tides of unimagined glow. And to that height illumined of the mind he calls us still by the familiar way, Leaving the sodden tracks of life behind, Befogged in failure, chilled with love's decay--

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Edith Wharton

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You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

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Chris Prentiss

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The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.

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Chris Prentiss

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the gods often mumble

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Margaret Atwood

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"Time often is forgiving and dismissive of the influences, because they recede. We look at Sgt. Pepper and we go "wow! How did they ever think that up?" but of course, if you got into Paul McCartney's bedroom, found his record collection at the time, you would find out. But the clues are gone. It's like evolution: there are certain pure situations that hang around longer, but the ones that got them there don't have time to leave fossils. We have a giraffe, we have a horse. But where's the horse with the long neck? The link species disappear."

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Michka Assayas

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A relationship is like a garden. To create a condition that will cause your plants to thrive and produce abundantly, you must weed, water, fertilize, and care for the plants in your garden. You must also know about the special needs of the plants you're caring for. Some need more or less light than others, some need more or less water than others, and some need special fertilizers.

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Chris Prentiss

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The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue.

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John Irving

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She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience.

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Wade Davis

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Also, don't forget that some of the most successful people in the world are self-taught programmers. Steve Wozniak, the founder of Apple, is a self-taught programmer. So is Margaret Hamilton, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on NASA's Apollo Moon missions; David Karp, founder of Tumblr; Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter; and Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram.

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Cory Althoff

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Jag har inget emot att do, bara inte i morgon, jag har en del jag skall gora forst.

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Astrid Lindgren

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Haydon was more than his model, he was his inspiration, the torch-bearer of a certain kind of English calling which - for the very reason that it was vague and understated and elusive - had made sense of Guillam's life till now.

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John le Carré

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For that is what you are, that is who you are - you are an author. You cannot cease to write any more than you can cease to breathe...This difficult season will pass - your eyes and mind will inevitably be opened once more to the wealth of ideas all around you...And even if the ideas around you fall short of what you seek - even if, as you say, you have not the heart to write... perhaps it is your heart you ought to write of. - Laurie to Jo, on writing

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Trix Wilkins

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Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

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V.C. Andrews

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I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving.

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Jane Hamilton

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"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."

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Harold Bloom

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"She glanced around at the tombstones. "You're surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job." "You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones."

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David Baldacci

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"In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete. When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by the Desana hunters when they die. Were there no men dying, there would be no birds or fish being born. I like this idea. Morrie likes it, too. The closer he gets to goodbye, the more he seems to feel we are all creatures in the same forest. What we take, we must replenish. "It's only fair," he says."

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Mitch Albom

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Our father came to sleep in our house that night. He carried a small suitcase with a black mourning suit and a pair of polished shoes. Corrigan stopped him as he made his way up the stairs. 'Where d'you think you're going?'Our father gripped the bannister. His hands were liverspotted and I could see him trembling in his pause. 'That's not your room,' sad Corrigan. Our father tottered on the stairs. He took another step up. 'Don't,' said my brother. His voice was clear, full, confidant. Our father stood stunned. He climbed one more step and then turned, descended, looked around, lost. 'My own sons,' he said. We made a bed for him on a sofa in the living room, but even then Corrigan refused to stay under the same roof; he went walking in the direction of the city center and I wondered what alley he might be found in later that night, what fist he might walk into, whose bottle he might climb down inside.

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Colum McCann

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"Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary."

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Madeleine L'Engle

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"Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)"

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Randy Alcorn

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What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.

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Chris Prentiss

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The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.

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Chris Prentiss

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The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser.

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Chris Prentiss

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"Once you look at your problems as "workout situations," they take on a whole new aspect."

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Chris Prentiss

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Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by. We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up.... Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

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Madeleine L'Engle

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I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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"The coincidences turn up down to the smallest details. There is, for instance, a character who has covered the mirrors with handkerchiefs. Apparently this happens somewhere in , too. And they said, Ah! This is where he got that. Where I got it was when I was in a hotel in Panama and I had washed my handkerchiefs and spread them on the windows and the mirrors to dry--they almost look pressed when they're peeled away that way--a Panamanian friend came in and said, "All the mirrors are covered. Who's dead? What's happened?" I said, "No, I'm just drying my handkerchiefs." Then I found the same incident in in what? 1903 or 1905, whenever was written. This always strikes me as dangerous--finding "sources."

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William Gaddis

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Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

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Robert Kurson

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"[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" --

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Amy Tan

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Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on...

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Matthew Pearl

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For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The is the mystery. The how is fragile.

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E.L. Konigsburg

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Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.

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Sylvain Reynard

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Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

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Robert Hellenga

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There is a kind of despair involved in creation which I am sure any artist knows all about. In art, as in morality, great things go by the board because at the crucial moment we blink our eyes. When is the crucial moment? Greatness is to recognize it and be able to hold it and to extend it. But for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter. And so we let each thing go, thinking vaguely that it will always be given to us to try again. Thus works of art, and thus whole lives of men, are spoilt by blinking and moving quickly on. I often found that I had ideas for stories, but by the time I had thought them out in detail they seemed to me hardly worth writing, as if I had already 'done' them: not because they were bad, but because they already belonged to the past and I had lost interest. My thoughts were soon stale to me. Some things I ruined by starting them too soon. Others by thinking them so intensely in my head that they were over before they began. Projects would change in a second from hazy uncommitted dreams into unsalvageable ancient history. Whole novels existed only in their titles.

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Iris Murdoch

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"Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)"

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Randy Alcorn

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There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.

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Mitch Albom

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"In the Christic tradition, this is the meaning of 'becoming as a little child.' Little children don't think they know what things mean, in fact, they know they don't know. They ask someone older and wiser to explain things to them. We're like children who don't know but think we do. We're meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be, because they demonstrate the power of genuine humility. This is also the explanation of 'beginner's luck.' When we go into a situation not knowing the rules, we don't pretend to know how to figure anything out, and we don't know yet what there is to be afraid of. This releases the mind to create from its own higher power." "

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Marianne Williamson

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She felt like she'd slipped into another world. For the first time someone knew exactly what the hurt felt like.

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Karen Kingsbury

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Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

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Chris Prentiss

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The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

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Ray Bradbury

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The Holy Spirit's desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That's because He wants to take us to places we've never been before. To heights we can't even imagine!

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Stormie Omartian

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FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.

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Maria Shriver

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Instructors could teach the basic techniques and methods, but a mastery of mechanical knowledge could never make a person an artist. No one could teach creativity or invention. A spark needed to come from within. It must be something unique, something discovered by the individual, a leap of understanding, a burst of insight, the combining of common elements in an unexpected way.

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Michael J. Sullivan

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Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

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Chris Prentiss

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You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.

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Chris Prentiss

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We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

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Chris Prentiss

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If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.

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Chris Prentiss

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When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

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Chris Prentiss

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What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.

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Chris Prentiss

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"Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities."

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Chris Prentiss

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And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful images of all.

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Iris Murdoch

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Our rate of conductivity is probably determined by an ability, learned or innate, to make the foreground into the background, so that the distractions of the everyday no longer take up our energy. Monks and contemplatives have tried to achieve this by withdrawing from the world---utter concentration, trance-like concentration, is what is needed. Passion, delirium, meditation, even out-of-body, are words we use to describe the heightened condition of superconductivity. It is certainly true that a criterion for true art, as opposed to its cunning counterfeit, is its ability to take us where the artist has been, to this other different place where we are free from the problems of gravity. When we are drawn into the art we are drawn out of ourselves. We are no longer bound by matter, matter has become what it is: empty space and light.

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Jeanette Winterson

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Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

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Geraldine  Brooks

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Generally she kept her head down, but on the occasions she raised it she was treated to the most intimate of panoramic views: the scattered possessions of the three people she had created. Several small items made her cry: a tiny woollen bootie, a broken orthodontic retainer, a woggle from a cub-scout tie. She had not become Malcolm X's private secretary. She never did direct a movie or run for the Senate. She could not fly a plane. But here was all this.

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Zadie Smith

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If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

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Stormie Omartian

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Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

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Brandi L. Bates

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THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings. A lapis lazuli sky was blanketed by gunmetal gray clouds as it wept crocodile tears across the parched Los Angeles landscape. When Ivy was a child and she overheard adults talking about their break-ups, in her young feeble-formed mind, she imagined it in the most literal of essences. She once heard her mother speaking of her break up with an emotionally unavailable man. She said they broke up on 69th Street. Ivy visualized her mother and that man breaking into countless fragments, like a spilled box of jigsaw pieces. And she imagined them shattered in broken shards, being blown down the pavement of 69th Street. For some reason, on the drive home from Marcel's apartment that next morning, all Ivy could think about was her mother and that faceless man in broken pieces, perhaps some aspects of them still stuck in cracks and crevices of the sidewalk, mistaken as grit. She couldn't get the image of Marcel having his seizure out of her mind. It left a burning sensation in the center of her chest. An incessant flame torched her lungs, chest, and even the back door of her tongue. Witnessing someone you cared about experiencing a seizure was one of those things that scribed itself indelibly on the canvas of your mind. It was gut-wrenching. Graphic and out-of-body, it was the stuff that post traumatic stress syndrome was made of.

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Brandi L. Bates

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"As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make"."

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Walter Isaacson

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He used to say, God is everywhere. In the work of your hands; in the beating of a bird's wings; in the roots of an oak and in the stones of the riverbed. In the rising of the sun. In the heart of a man. In the wonders we know, and those that are beyond our knowing.

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Juliet Marillier

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"A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument," Leonardo da Vinci"

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Walter Isaacson

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You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

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Norton Juster

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It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability to swim.

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Mark Nepo

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Sim, pensa Clarissa, esta na hora deste dia acabar. Nos damos nossas festas; abandonamos nossas familias para viver no Canada; nos nos digladiamos para escrever livros que nao mudam o mundo, a despeito de nossos dons e de nossos imensos esforcos, nossas esperancas mais extravagantes. Vivemos nossas vidas, fazemos nossas coisas, depois dormimos - e simples assim, comum assim. Alguns se atiram da janela, outros se afogam, tomam pilulas; muitos mais morrem em algum acidente; e a maioria de nos, a grande maioria, e devorada por alguma doenca ou, quando temos muita sorte, pelo proprio tempo. Existe apenas isto como consolo: uma hora, em um momento ou outro, quando, apesar dos pesares todos, a vida parece explodir e nos dar tudo o que haviamos imaginado, ainda que qualquer um, exceto as criancas (e talvez ate elas), saiba que a essa seguir-se-ao inevitavelmente muitas outras horas, bem mais penosas e dificeis. Mesmo assim, gostamos da cidade, da manha, e torcemos, como nao fazemos por nenhuma outra coisa, para que haja mais.

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Michael Cunningham

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Despite it all, there were heroes who rose above their circumstances. Those who reached out to people of another race with compassion and even love.

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Noel Marie Fletcher

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A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. Elisabeth Elliot

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Elisabeth Elliot

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In neighborhoods like the oneI grew up in, places that are poor in proxy but rich in rhetoric, the hollies have a saying - I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

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Paul Beatty

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What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

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Barbara W. Tuchman

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The affair made men feel larger than life.

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Barbara W. Tuchman

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If I can give one bit of advice to any drama major, high school theater kid, or inmate who is reading this in a prison library with dreams of being cast in he prison play, its this: write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you ave to take destiny into your own hands.

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Mindy Kaling

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Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

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Chris Prentiss

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If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it.

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Chris Prentiss

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Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

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Chris Prentiss

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By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

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Chris Prentiss

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Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us.

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Chris Prentiss

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Each of us is different and has different needs. In addition, our needs change over the course of our relationship. When you are committed to an enduring relationship with someone, you aren't simply concerned about having your needs met. You also go out of your way to care for your loved one, being aware of and adaptable to their changing needs.

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Chris Prentiss

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If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it.

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Chris Prentiss

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The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.

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Chris Prentiss

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It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it.

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Ann Patchett

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Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstancias mais extraordinarias, durante episodios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais distantes de casa e de tudo que nos e familiar, possam existir esses momentos de incontestavel alegria.

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Elizabeth Kostova