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a30d230 Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself. advice children extraordinary life lives ordinary William Martin
90c3eab A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world. alter chain choice course decision domino fate inspirational life lives monumental reaction stranger world J.D. Stroube
93eaa95 We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect. lives perfect survive Haruki Murakami
0b5010f People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one. life lives Holly Black
f9b0d8b It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know. i-don-t-know lives remember time wonder Markus Zusak
12f4357 Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive. book-reading books feel lived lives reading vicarious V.C. Andrews
88ca494 Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both. fool lives people truth-telling James Baldwin
0737876 "It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause, we come here to get away from such things. As long as we are here, we can get by without hurting others or being hurt by them because we know that we are "deformed". That's what distinguishes us from the outside world: most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition. Just as Indians wear feathers on their heads to show what tribe they belong to, we wear our deformities in the open. And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another." flaws hurt lives outside-world people precondition truth Haruki Murakami
470c8fa At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything. destiny lives moment Paulo Coelho
9c225e3 "... "That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -" fate life life-lessons lives the-alchemist Paulo Coelho
82081ba But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it. john-steinbeck lives money the-grapes-of-wrath value worth John Steinbeck
d534c2d How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard habit hygge lives Louisa Thomsen Brits
e672d29 Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God's love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always will speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble. ideals lives truth words Henri J.M. Nouwen
a702efb We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive. abandonement alive away book-reading books children experience good-time idle live lived lives read reading thumbs vicarious V.C. Andrews
55a8fec Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs. bulbs electric fragile lives sequestered Michel Faber
0b437c2 A God-focused attitude is positive and directs you to better the lives of those you love while giving God the glory. better christian directs focus give glory god lives love positive Elizabeth George
a8dc14a The love of minds should last beyond lives. lives love minds Don DeLillo
293a6a1 I like to see the people arriving. I like to imagine their lives. It keeps me from thinking too much about my own. A man shouldn't be too introspective. It weakens him. That is the difference between Tennessee Williams and Ernest Hemingway. I'm a Hemingway man myself although I don't believe it is right to hunt lions. hunting introspection life lives tennessee-williams thinking Jeanette Winterson
63b2899 It is as though our dreams were watching us and directing our lives with external vigour whilst we simply enact their pleasures passively, in a swoon. lives pleasures reality A.S. Byatt
528b819 I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as they write love letters, wills and confessions. I have watched as lovers love, murderers murder and children play their make believe. Prisons and brothels have opened their doors to me; galleons and camel trains have transported me across sea and sand; centuries and continents have fallen away at my bidding. I have spied upon the misdeeds of the mighty and witnessed the nobility of the meek. I have bent so low over sleepers in their beds that they might have felt my breath on their faces. I have seen their dreams. characters lives people writers Diane Setterfield
feafa69 We make our own lives wherever we are, after all[...]They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. Life is rich and full here...everywhere...if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness. life lives L.M. Montgomery
c2b565b People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities. castoffs furniture interior-decorating life lives moving personality Colson Whitehead
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