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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are n... HARRY CHAPIN Independence is counterfeit freedom. We think if we can make all our own choices and do our own thin... PAULINE CREEDEN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking ... NORA RALEIGH BASKIN Just please understand that everyone is going through a rough time as well. Even if they are hiding ... HYRUM YEAKLEY Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M When we come together to play and be we are truly ourselves When we are truly ourselves it is wonder... BRAD COLBY It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is t... JOSEPH E. MCCABE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibil... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the wo... JOHN S. BONNELL I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can... PAUL LEPAGE Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ... LESLEY LIVINGSTON But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat... LEWIS CARROLL Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY Because they are so emphatically there, and so inconvertibly interior, it is almost inevitable that ... EUGENE H. PETERSON And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything whi... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER Trust: Just as you would not want to do business with someone you can't trust, this law simply state... SIDNEY MADWED It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Woul... MODERATA FONTE I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell... JOHN LUBBOCK And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found... BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are ... C. JOYBELL C. By taking training now, they can be prepared when a disaster occurs to go and help, ... We need to g... NANCY BROWN Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One. ANITA B. SULSER We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without... LANGSTON HUGHES When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems a... ANN MARIE AGUILAR For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE Taken as practical counsel for survival, the Fifth Commandment is now almost a dead letter. Yet if o... JOY DAVIDMAN What if love and reality are big things, so big that we can only ever see a tiny bit and we think we... LYSSA DANEHY DEHART This is the fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our eff... C.S. LEWIS Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 We are not only to renounce evil, but t... J. HUDSON TAYLOR So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We have never died before, so lets live our lives together until our last moments. Lets enjoy oursel... ANONYMOUS Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the thin... ROSALEEN DICKSON If we're not compelled to gain a deeper understanding of good and evil, how can we make the worl... SCOTT DERRICKSON We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise eno... ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS As a global community, we have to start thinking more seriously about whether there are limits to wh... CHRISTY TURLINGTON What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha... ANAïS NIN The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we wou... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape th... DALAI LAMA XIV My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s... WENDELL BERRY We need to be more aggressive with our swings, ... But they are all things we can work on. BETH SHELTON We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned... MAYA ANGELOU The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned... MAYA ANGELOU All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe... PETER DAVID Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we... KATHERINE ANNE PORTER You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and canno... ELISABETH ELLIOT After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a... EDWARD HOPPER In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for whic... MARGARET D. NADAULD Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko, Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy..... .....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai, K... VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible throug... DAVID MITCHELL We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be s... DORA RUSSELL We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be s... DORA RUSSELL Our country is the world, our countrymen all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we l... WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Love, no matter how it’s expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flaw... ERIN MCCARTHY We are all disappointed, but we are taking it as something to overlook and to move on and work hard ... JENNIFER ORLANDO Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serv... GUY FINLEY When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the ... JACK KORNFIELD When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven. DEBASISH MRIDHA Allah has names of Beauty: the Compassionate, the Merciful, the Gentle, and many others. But He also... ABDAL HAKIM MURAD The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be... KELSANG GYATSO All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as ... PEARL S. BUCK All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, a... PEARL S. BUCK We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have plac... DORA RUSSELL The Government is taking this very seriously. The first thing is that there are understandable conce... BILL RAMMELL Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I ... SHELDON VANAUKEN The relationship between the San Francisco Giants and the Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation da... STACI SLAUGHTER I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many o... THEODORE HESBURGH No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p... ERIC HOFFER "If our Love is based on Conditions, Expectations, and Things, We are on the road to failure. If our... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN All we have to believe is our senses: the tools we use to perceive the world, our sight, our touch, ... NEIL GAIMAN There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; ... FULTON J. SHEEN We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves.... that is the best we can be in each moment, un... JAY WOODMAN To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a... RACHEL NAOMI REMEN
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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. TOM ROBBINS Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for ... TOM ROBBINS Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B... TOM ROBBINS Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants. TOM ROBBINS The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ... TOM ROBBINS When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results... TOM ROBBINS To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone. TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys... TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w... TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th... TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ... TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this... TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai... TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ... TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve... TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ... TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for... TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i... TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with... TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are. TOM ROBBINS