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What I'm trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn't throw anything at us that it knows we can't handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.
Alexandra Bracken
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I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
Philip Sington
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Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being counted as just one more product on a shelf? There had to be more to a person than that.
Suzanne Weyn
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The top has no limits. We can keep on climbing. That's what people do.
Ryōgo Narita
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Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.
Simon Sinek
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Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.
Wes Moore
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It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn't, and we weren't.
Scott Heim
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Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.
Luanne Rice
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People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.
Ellen Potter
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You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you." "Yes, but it's my favorite bit of wall, Gordon. I'd hurt its feelings if I didn't stop and talk to it.
Kerstin Gier
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The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?
Ilsa J. Bick
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When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.
James Rollins
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I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived
Karen Maitland
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We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
Alistair Begg
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We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
Joshua Harris (pastor)
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But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.
Robin Sloan
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Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.
Abbi Glines
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I told my brothers I heard
You & mother making love,
Your low moans like blues
Bringing them into the world.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
Susan Hill
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Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
Beth Kephart
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Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.
Marie Lu
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It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it
Julie Orringer
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The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!
Joseph Prince
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This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.
Daniel Wallace (author)
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I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.
Anna Funder
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