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• He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

  Chaim Potok

  Drinking, Sleep, Men

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.

  Jim Elliot

  Thanksgiving, Son, Light

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• Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.

  Tim Wise

  Race, Racism, Identity

  Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.8, Soft Skull Press

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• I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Babe

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• Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

  John Stott

  Christian, Responsibility, Impossible

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.93, InterVarsity Press

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• When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Imagination, Darkness, Suggestions

  Algernon Blackwood (2008). “Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

  Hugh Laurie

  Use, Commodity, Good Things

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

  Ann Brashares

  Independent, Giving, Fundamentals

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.55, Random House

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• The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Eye, Men

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.

  Franny Billingsley

  Wine, Ideas, Two

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.168, A&C Black

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• Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.

  Brandon Mull

  Believe, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Eye, Men, Years

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.147, Bibliolis Books

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• As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.

  Hilary Mantel

  Character, Black, Desire

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• All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn’t your plan when you created the universe—maybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world. But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

  Lauren Kate

  War, Good Love, Fighting

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series”, p.388, Random House

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• Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Shadow Work, Association

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Evil, Way

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• They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

  Dave Eggers

  World, Disappointed

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.250, Vintage

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• Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.' 'There’s been a lot on my mind,' I replied. 'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.'

  Jim Butcher

  Queens, Eyebrows, Mind

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• The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hypnosis, Behavior Change, Drug

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.258, Random House

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• For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.

  James Agee

  Art, Symphony, Effort

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• Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Space, Silence

  Eckhart Tolle (2004). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.139, New World Library

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• I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

  Russell Brand

  Struggle, Character, Madness

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• If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Fate, Darkness

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.60, Vintage

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• "Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

  Pema Chodron

  Karma, Grateful, People

  "Start where You are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baseball, Giving Up, Mean

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