life-and-living

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9582da5	Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.	beautiful beauty belief belief-quotes destiny happiness inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life life-and-living life-experience living spirit truth	C. JoyBell C.
4cc5086	I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.	destiny freedom happiness humanism inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring life life-and-living living spirit stained-glass-window	C. JoyBell C.
40a17d1	Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.	best-books excellence good-books happin inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life life-and-living life-experience life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes motivation motivational-quotes wisdom	Bohdi Sanders
a5ae715	There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make; you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring invest-in-yourself life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
ddec5d8	To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.	fear inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-confidence	Roy T. Bennett
51abc91	There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.	bravery courage inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life life-and-living living living-life perfection raw rawness readiness ready	C. JoyBell C.
8443596	Instead of worrying about what could go wrong, change your thoughts to what could go right. When you change the negative thought into a positive one, it eliminates the negative one.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
5bf6fa3	Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.	brave courage inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking procrastination take-risks	Roy T. Bennett
a378eef	Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself	abilities ability believe believe-in-yourself confidence dream dreams empowerment hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes limitations limits living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential self-doubt spiritual-growth spirituality	Roy T. Bennett
cadc58d	You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.	improvement inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
5997816	What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.	commitment inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic perseverance positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking resilience	Roy T. Bennett
e17c4a1	There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself; you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.	be-yourself believe-in core-values inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking value	Roy T. Bennett
6c2c4fe	Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances; a head full of negative thoughts has no space for positive ones.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational negative optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
09864bb	Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.	do-good inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring joy life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
b2d97ff	Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.	challenge inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking strong	Roy T. Bennett
d5599bc	Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.	inspirational life life-and-living life-lessons	Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
3e7770b	You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.	life-and-living time time-passing	José Saramago
73d7a53	Never let fear hold you captive	fear inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-doubt	Roy T. Bennett
3b82a56	Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?	being-passionate inspiration inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring life-and-living passion passion-for-life passionate passionate-life passionate-living passions polite politeness	C. JoyBell C.
bed9322	The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.	commitment inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success	Roy T. Bennett
56996f3	If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go--whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
79c52e6	You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring laws-of-attraction life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
6fd0196	One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.	enjoy human-desire influence inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leadership life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
27fe791	You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you're faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you'll overcome it. Yes, you can.	challenge difficulty inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
d902034	Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.	achieve deserve inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
ea43f4a	Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.	goal goals inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
61f3905	Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.	improvement inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring integrity leadership life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success truth truthful	Roy T. Bennett
30bcf3e	Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination	goal goals inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
223f1a9	Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.	challenges courage inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
e575179	We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
4573631	People are successful because they think and act like successful people.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success	Roy T. Bennett
03c11f6	Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.	doing inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
a2b4f27	It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.	life-and-living inspirational	Stephen Fry
79a6aba	Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.	fame inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living popularity quotes-for-women womens-inspirational	C. JoyBell C.
c173397	Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.	education growing growth inspirational inspirational-quotes inspiring learning learning-process life life-and-living school-of-life teachings wealth wisdom wisdom-quotes	C. JoyBell C.
c90b454	Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life.	dedication inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking purpose	Roy T. Bennett
ef2cd5c	A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.	courage inspirational inspirational-character inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living	C. JoyBell C.
e338e81	Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!	cake cakes happiness inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes joy life life-and-living living looking-no-further the-way-of-the-cake the-way-to-happiness understanding-happiness understanding-joy	C. JoyBell C.
1fc1106	"Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules; only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief. Belief is both prize & battlefield, within the mind & in the mind's mirror, the world. If we humanity is a ladder of tribes, a colosseum of confrontation, exploitation & bestiality, such a humanity is surely brought into being, & history's Horroxes, Boerhaaves & Gooses shall prevail. You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What of it if our consciences itch? Why undermine the dominance of our race, our gunships, our heritage & our legacy? Why fight the "natural" (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this:--one fine day, a purely predatory world consume itself. Yes, the devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul. For the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is this the doom written within our nature? If we that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, if we divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we that leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass. I am not deceived. It is the hardest of worlds to make real. Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. A life spent shaping a world I Jackson to inherit, not one I Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living."	humanity life-and-living	David Mitchell
874a3cd	What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.	life life-and-living life-quotes	Scott Westerfeld
a93558a	The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.	inspirational life-and-living life-lessons discovery	Frances Hodgson Burnett
d8c3c88	Nothing is so essential as dignity...Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.	life-and-living	Elizabeth Gilbert
11bdb4e	Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.	death-and-dying life-and-living sister-carlotta	Orson Scott Card
28f21f6	All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.	life-and-living truth truth-of-life truthful	Carrie Vaughn
5a4732b	It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.	life-and-living	Jim Butcher
99c200d	It's easy to win. Anybody can win.	life-and-living loser winning	Philip K. Dick
f33249f	There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.	life life-and-living living living-life living-life-to-the-fullest suicide	Nick Hornby
7d4959e	If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.	haters life-and-living	Charlaine Harris
81455f6	For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-life life-and-death life-and-living life-lessons meditation-experience mind-body-spirit mind-control mind-power mindfulness mindfulness-practice quotes-i-love quotes-on-life quotes-that-make-sense quotes-to-define-my-life quotes-to-live-by	Jon Kabat-Zinn
86b899e	Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.	life-and-living life-experience life-lessons philosophy	Barbara Kingsolver
07a55ed	The hardest thing is being with other people - it's like they're on a different wavelenght, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.	life life-and-living life-lessons relationship	J.R. Ward
f420213	Nothing is but what is now	life-and-living past present-moment	Ron Rash
531509d	I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!	life-and-living rubbish-heap	Edith Wharton
1a83871	[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.	life-and-living pain problems scarlett-o-hara	Margaret Mitchell
1926a76	Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.	life-and-living	Ray Bradbury
1539673	I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.	life-and-living life-lessons writing-life	Margaret Atwood
a9a6b7d	If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.	bravery control courage life life-and-living relinquish-control	Madeleine L'Engle
2684aa4	If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.	life-and-living	Steve Martin
3cd9fc1	It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.	life-and-living	Emma Forrest
d736c01	He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven--at least in this life--was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.	fleeting fright heaven life-and-living love nostalgic sky tears yearn yearning	Mary Balogh
86fffd0	Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow	life-and-living	Cecelia Ahern
3172968	But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.	life-and-living	L.M. Montgomery
1ce5e49	I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.	life-and-living	Charlaine Harris
66871a7	Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about.	inspirational life-and-living life-lessons motivational pain sadness thoughts	James Clavell
38cc39a	Nao aspiro a nada. Doi-me a vida. Estou mal onde estou e ja mal onde penso em poder estar.	lack-of-motivation life-and-living	Fernando Pessoa
ffdaab9	I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.	life-and-living	Yann Martel
0516f47	"He bent his gaze sternly on them. "First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. "Consider none your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen." He continued at a slower pace, "Of the affairs of love... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful took to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. That's all I have to say." He seemed slightly self-conscious of his speech." --	life life-and-living	Christopher Paolini
225dc7b	It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.	life-and-living philosophy vastness west western	Wallace Stegner
cd4ea05	I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.	life-and-living life-lessons	Yann Martel
5c90f15	... one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.	life-and-living life-philosophy	Agatha Christie
f466d54	If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are	die life-and-living	Mitch Albom
bf66fe5	I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre.	life-and-living unexpected	Adolfo Bioy Casares
f2ad54e	Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.	life-and-living	Robert Fulghum
a7f0bc5	An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.	benefactor human-being human-race humanity influence interests life-and-living sympathy	Harriet Beecher Stowe
0221c6b	These days every morning begins like a joke you think you have heard before, but there is no one telling it whom you can stop. One day it's about a cow who walks into a bar, then about a man with a big nose on his honeymoon, then about a kangaroo who walks into a bar. Each one takes up an entire day. The sun looks like a prank Nathanael West is pulling on the world; on the drive to work cars are swinging comically from lane to lane. The houses and lawns belong in cartoons. The hours collapse into one another's arms. The stories arc over noon and descend like slow ferris wheels into the haze of evening. You wish you could stop listening and get serious. Trouble is you cannot remember the punch line which never arrives till very late at night, just as you are reaching for the bedside lamp, just before you begin laughing in the dark.	life life-and-living	Billy Collins
038ce3f	When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.	life life-and-living	Ned Vizzini
fb3feb1	I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it, our years apart. How strange. And it's still loved, or its memory is (it must have changed a lot). Our visions coincided--'visions' is too serious a word--our looks, two looks: art 'copying from life' and life itself, life and the memory of it so compressed they've turned into each other. Which is which? Life and the memory of it cramped, dim, on a piece of Bristol board, dim, but how live, how touching in detail --the little that we get for free, the little of our earthly trust. Not much. About the size of our abidance along with theirs: the munching cows, the iris, crisp and shivering, the water still standing from spring freshets, the yet-to-be-dismantled elms, the geese.	life life-and-living memory	Elizabeth Bishop
d0f4851	If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests lie, and they will act politically to maximize them. You will believe in polling and focus groups: you will believe that if you ask people what their interests are, they will be aware of them and will tell you, and will vote on it. You will not have any need to appeal to emotion---indeed, to do so would be wrong! You will not have to speak of values; facts and figures will suffice. You will not have to change people's brains; their reason should be enough. You will not have to frame the facts; they will speak for themselves. You just have to get the facts to them...	does-it-make-a-sound george-lakeoff humor-inspirational humor-irony-death-zombie life-and-living life-interpreting political-interpreting political-philosophy political-science relationship-interpreting	George Lakoff
ea81aa9	It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation	life-and-living	Alice Munro
338049d	That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.	kindness life-and-living	Alexander McCall Smith
07830f5	If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.	life life-and-living	James Patterson
eb23ead	I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.	givingup inspirationalquotes j-d-salingeralinger life-and-living lifelesson	J.D. Salinger
e433ec3	Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.	expectation hope hoping life life-and-living	Elizabeth von Arnim
1f64d7b	But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.	life-and-living positive-outlook positive-thinking	Mary Balogh
ca718ad	Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.	life life-and-living philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness	Chris Prentiss
c42bdee	The love of God is constantly active and present. His love didn't just happen once. It's forever moving in you and in your life.	christian-living god life-and-living	Stormie Omartian
e4d9c1b	"True enough. I say this all the time. Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this." "No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death..."	life life-and-living life-quote	J.R. Ward
cb56bd6	"I surround myself with all eight throw pillows while hugging two. "What is so bad and uninteresting about me, Alex? Peter was the fifth break up- "-Sixth-" "-Sixth break up in the last two years. And I'm always the dumpee. Are my conversations that boring that no man wants to stay?" "Sandra, with this topic, yes. But usually, no."	humour life-and-living	Rose Brown
015a284	I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis	inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy responsibility	Christopher Paolini
89869bb	"More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty."	life-and-living west-germany	Krista Tippett
3cdfb15	"In this lengthy riposte, the philosopher informs Paulinus that "learning how to live takes a whole life," and the sense most of us have that our lives are cruelly brief is a specious one: "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."	life-and-living life-quotes	Zadie Smith
779d5b7	All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell.	life-and-living story telling	Jess Walter
ca5ba41	But Pascal quickly forgave me, and it's a good thing, since friends of my own age and gender were not available, the girls of Kilanga all being too busy hauling around firewood, water, or babies. It did cross my mind to wonder why Pascal had the freedom to play and roam that his sisters didn't. While the little boys ran around pretending to shoot each other and fall dead in the road, it appeared that little girls were running the country.	gender life-and-living	Barbara Kingsolver

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Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.

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C. JoyBell C.

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I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.

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C. JoyBell C.

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Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

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Bohdi Sanders

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There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make; you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you.

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Roy T. Bennett

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To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.

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Roy T. Bennett

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There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.

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C. JoyBell C.

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Instead of worrying about what could go wrong, change your thoughts to what could go right. When you change the negative thought into a positive one, it eliminates the negative one.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself

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Roy T. Bennett

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You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.

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Roy T. Bennett

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What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.

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Roy T. Bennett

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There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself; you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances; a head full of negative thoughts has no space for positive ones.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.

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Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

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You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

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José Saramago

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Never let fear hold you captive

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Roy T. Bennett

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Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?

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C. JoyBell C.

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The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.

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Roy T. Bennett

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If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go--whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.

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Roy T. Bennett

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You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.

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Roy T. Bennett

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One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.

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Roy T. Bennett

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You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you're faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you'll overcome it. Yes, you can.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination

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Roy T. Bennett

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Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.

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Roy T. Bennett

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We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.

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Roy T. Bennett

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People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.

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Roy T. Bennett

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It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

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Stephen Fry

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Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.

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C. JoyBell C.

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Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.

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C. JoyBell C.

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Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life.

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Roy T. Bennett

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A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.

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C. JoyBell C.

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Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

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C. JoyBell C.

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"Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules; only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief. Belief is both prize & battlefield, within the mind & in the mind's mirror, the world. If we humanity is a ladder of tribes, a colosseum of confrontation, exploitation & bestiality, such a humanity is surely brought into being, & history's Horroxes, Boerhaaves & Gooses shall prevail. You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What of it if our consciences itch? Why undermine the dominance of our race, our gunships, our heritage & our legacy? Why fight the "natural" (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this:--one fine day, a purely predatory world consume itself. Yes, the devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul. For the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is this the doom written within our nature? If we that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, if we divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we that leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass. I am not deceived. It is the hardest of worlds to make real. Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. A life spent shaping a world I Jackson to inherit, not one I Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living."

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David Mitchell

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What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

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Scott Westerfeld

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The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Nothing is so essential as dignity...Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

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Orson Scott Card

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All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

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Carrie Vaughn

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It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.

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Jim Butcher

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It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

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Philip K. Dick

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There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.

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Nick Hornby

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If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.

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Charlaine Harris

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For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

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Barbara Kingsolver

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The hardest thing is being with other people - it's like they're on a different wavelenght, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.

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J.R. Ward

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Nothing is but what is now

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Ron Rash

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I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!

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Edith Wharton

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[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

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Margaret Mitchell

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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

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Ray Bradbury

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I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.

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Margaret Atwood

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If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

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Madeleine L'Engle

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If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.

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Steve Martin

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It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

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Emma Forrest

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He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven--at least in this life--was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

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Mary Balogh

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Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

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Cecelia Ahern

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But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.

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L.M. Montgomery

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I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

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Charlaine Harris

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Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about.

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James Clavell

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Nao aspiro a nada. Doi-me a vida. Estou mal onde estou e ja mal onde penso em poder estar.

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Fernando Pessoa

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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

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Yann Martel

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"He bent his gaze sternly on them. "First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. "Consider none your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen." He continued at a slower pace, "Of the affairs of love... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful took to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. That's all I have to say." He seemed slightly self-conscious of his speech." --

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Christopher Paolini

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It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.

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Wallace Stegner

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I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

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Yann Martel

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... one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.

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Agatha Christie

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If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

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Mitch Albom

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I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre.

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Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.

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Robert Fulghum

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An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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These days every morning begins like a joke you think you have heard before, but there is no one telling it whom you can stop. One day it's about a cow who walks into a bar, then about a man with a big nose on his honeymoon, then about a kangaroo who walks into a bar. Each one takes up an entire day. The sun looks like a prank Nathanael West is pulling on the world; on the drive to work cars are swinging comically from lane to lane. The houses and lawns belong in cartoons. The hours collapse into one another's arms. The stories arc over noon and descend like slow ferris wheels into the haze of evening. You wish you could stop listening and get serious. Trouble is you cannot remember the punch line which never arrives till very late at night, just as you are reaching for the bedside lamp, just before you begin laughing in the dark.

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Billy Collins

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When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

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Ned Vizzini

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I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it, our years apart. How strange. And it's still loved, or its memory is (it must have changed a lot). Our visions coincided--'visions' is too serious a word--our looks, two looks: art 'copying from life' and life itself, life and the memory of it so compressed they've turned into each other. Which is which? Life and the memory of it cramped, dim, on a piece of Bristol board, dim, but how live, how touching in detail --the little that we get for free, the little of our earthly trust. Not much. About the size of our abidance along with theirs: the munching cows, the iris, crisp and shivering, the water still standing from spring freshets, the yet-to-be-dismantled elms, the geese.

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Elizabeth Bishop

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If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests lie, and they will act politically to maximize them. You will believe in polling and focus groups: you will believe that if you ask people what their interests are, they will be aware of them and will tell you, and will vote on it. You will not have any need to appeal to emotion---indeed, to do so would be wrong! You will not have to speak of values; facts and figures will suffice. You will not have to change people's brains; their reason should be enough. You will not have to frame the facts; they will speak for themselves. You just have to get the facts to them...

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George Lakoff

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It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation

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Alice Munro

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That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.

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Alexander McCall Smith

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If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.

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James Patterson

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I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.

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J.D. Salinger

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Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.

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Elizabeth von Arnim

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But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.

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Mary Balogh

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Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.

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Chris Prentiss

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The love of God is constantly active and present. His love didn't just happen once. It's forever moving in you and in your life.

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Stormie Omartian

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"True enough. I say this all the time. Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this." "No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death..."

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J.R. Ward

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"I surround myself with all eight throw pillows while hugging two. "What is so bad and uninteresting about me, Alex? Peter was the fifth break up- "-Sixth-" "-Sixth break up in the last two years. And I'm always the dumpee. Are my conversations that boring that no man wants to stay?" "Sandra, with this topic, yes. But usually, no."

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Rose  Brown

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I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis

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Christopher Paolini

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"More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty."

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Krista Tippett

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"In this lengthy riposte, the philosopher informs Paulinus that "learning how to live takes a whole life," and the sense most of us have that our lives are cruelly brief is a specious one: "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

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Zadie Smith

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All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell.

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Jess Walter

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But Pascal quickly forgave me, and it's a good thing, since friends of my own age and gender were not available, the girls of Kilanga all being too busy hauling around firewood, water, or babies. It did cross my mind to wonder why Pascal had the freedom to play and roam that his sisters didn't. While the little boys ran around pretending to shoot each other and fall dead in the road, it appeared that little girls were running the country.

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Barbara Kingsolver