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DENISE MONTEIRO What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy... LL COOL J Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles. ROY BENNETT We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much ... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons. MOTHER TERESA God is in people. Miracles and blessings happen through people SUNDAY ADELAJA We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassio... ADAM RAYNER History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. SARA SHERIDAN And how we can play our part in taking care of our environment so we can continue to have the beauti... LISA MATSUMOTO The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative ac... SHAUN TAN Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so m... BENNY GREEN In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adve... MALORIE BLACKMAN Life in expectation of miracles is to expect blessings and provisions without due process. SUNDAY ADELAJA Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they... JADI KINDRED We always assume that people hate Us. That's not always the case. People hate what we Do...whether i... MITTA XININDLU We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go togeth... 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JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Everything in life (the good, the bad, and the naughty) is a gift... The wisdom you gain from your m... NERISSA IRVING A world full of love and allergic to hate is what I like. SEAN CROSBY Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about hers... MICHAEL IAN BLACK Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, gra... ALFRED A. MONTAPERT Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, gra... ALFRED MONTAPERT I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people. KALEY CUOCO In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are... ROBERT GOOLRICK Believe in Your Heart Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of pass... ROY T. BENNETT No matter what: In good times and bad, successes and failures, good health and sickness - we must le... LASHAN DIA GRAY This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of... BEN OKRI Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the rich... DANIEL BARENBOIM Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,wha... LEO TOLSTOY October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golde... SARAH GUILLORY Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ... ALDOUS HUXLEY I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my... KIMBERLY CALDWELL There are no journeys in life, just lessons. In death, that's when the journey begins STEVEN ESPINOSA Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exactin... MARY KAY ANDREWS Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love sto... GABRIELLE ZEVIN No one was conceived by hate, but love, so love each other knowing this-even if the world is full of... LAURA E. BRUSSEAU I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional ... TED TURNER My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. BEATRICE WOOD What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h... C. JOYBELL C. Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads formed years and mi... GINA GREENLEE I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures. HERBIE HANCOCK We are what we are. 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CLEMENT OGEDEGBE The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow t... SHIRLEY MACLAINE We shouldn't live in a world where we live in constant terror. We need less dying and more living. W... IMANIA MARGRIA I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, ... LORETTA SANCHEZ Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Be... CARY ELWES Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to b... ERICK T. YOUNG The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that... MAE JEMISON You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is ... LAZ ALONSO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. All humans make mistakes. 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JONATHAN SWIFT Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. JONATHAN SWIFT The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa... JONATHAN CARROLL In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about... JONATHAN SACKS When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther... JONATHAN KOZOL If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would
not have given them to such a sco... JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu... JONATHAN SWIFT Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left. Which ever side you think i... JONATHAN BAILEY If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou... JONATHAN SWIFT Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op... JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno... JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ... JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju... JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w... JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. JONATHAN SWIFT I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas... JONATHAN KOZOL I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch... JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. JONATHAN SWIFT If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop... JONATHAN MARTIN The true art of government consists in not governing too much. JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous. JONATHAN SWIFT Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. JONATHAN TOM More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life. JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... JONATHAN TROPPER Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he... JONATHAN STROUD A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e... JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a... JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. JONATHAN PRICE Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking JONATHAN STROUD The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ... JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that. JONATHAN STROUD Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It ch... JONATHAN STROUD Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death... JONATHAN STROUD I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our... JONATHAN STROUD Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” ... JONATHAN STROUD Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f... JONATHAN STROUD Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit ... JONATHAN STROUD God rest her soul and may she never walk at night JONATHAN STROUD A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six... JONATHAN STROUD One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. JONATHAN STROUD According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, m... JONATHAN STROUD Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a cer... JONATHAN STROUD