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And every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It's a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.
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As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.
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There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.
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I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are
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I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.
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It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.
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It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls' most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.
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We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.
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There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives
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It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.
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The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
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Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst
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Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.
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The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.
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Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.
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What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
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Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?
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Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
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I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?
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I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.
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I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
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It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
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You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
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From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
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If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to school like you. I get bullied like you. Unlike you, I live in Idaho. Don't ask me what state Idaho is in––news flash––Idaho IS a state.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Richard Paul Evans
Born:
October 11, 1962
(age 61)
Bio:
Richard Paul Evans is an American author, best known for writing The Christmas Box and, more recently, the Michael Vey series.
Known for:
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 (2011)
The Christmas Box (1993)
The Walk (2010)
Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen (2012)
The Road to Grace (2012)
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