Michael Morpurgo
Related How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON C. JOYBELL C. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER CHLOE THURLOW CHRISTINA ENGELA I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE GERMANY KENT HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE CRAIG GROESCHEL ANTHONY LICCIONE Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON DEBASISH MRIDHA WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE CRAIG GROESCHEL Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no... JAMES C. DOBSON HENRY JAMES WENDELL BERRY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE ERNEST HEMINGWAY RAINER MARIA RILKE ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS TESSA DARE HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO BRYSON TILLER BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA CRAIG GROESCHEL CRAIG GROESCHEL DEYTH BANGER CRAIG GROESCHEL GEORGE MACDONALD ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH JEAN-LUC GODARD CASSANDRA CLARE When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE If you could do that, it's great to do it. And a lot of great musicians have done it. A lot of music... SONNY ROLLINS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to d... BEN SHAHN I was really happy with what the divers did all year long. The diving competition was more of a rela... JOHN AMES C. JOYBELL C. DEYTH BANGER C. JOYBELL C. STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. 
If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... 
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. 
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... 
After Rilke's Letters
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No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... 
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