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• When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.

  Joel Osteen

  Heart, Opportunity, Compassion

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• The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Children, Home

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.135, Convergent Books

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• There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

  Brent Weeks

  Sacrifice, Winning, Guarantees That

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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• I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

  Marian Keyes

  Home, Two, Feelings

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• The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

  Mark Twain

  Miracle, Mermaid, Facts

  Mark Twain (1962). “Letters from the Earth”

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• It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Wise, Insightful

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• This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a strange and sudden force, and she had an overwhelming urge to turn back, get into bed and not go out for about three weeks. She stopped in her tracks. The feeling itself was alarming to Charlotte - was she sensing something? Something dangerous? And was it something supernatural or just middle school? Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference.

  Anne Ursu

  Morning, School, Overwhelming Urge

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• One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Morning

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• This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Fun, Sibling

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• For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Making A Difference, Purpose

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.

  Derrick Jensen

  Thinking, Views, Feelings

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.39, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

  Terry Goodkind

  Motivation, Lying, Stupid

  "Wizard's First Rule". Book by Terry Goodkind, 1994.

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• Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

  Daniel Handler

  Heart, People, Shapes

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• A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

  Joanne Harris

  Years, Medicine, Magic

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• It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

  Joanne Harris

  House, Making A Difference, Village

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• I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference

  Gerard Way

  Cheer Up, Making A Difference, World

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• Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

  Marisha Pessl

  Tree, Brave, Enlightenment

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• The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mirrors, People, Vampire

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk (p. 144), May 3, 2005.

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• To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Gratitude, Grateful

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• People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Race, People

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• Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.

  Bill Bryson

  Home, Thinking, Average

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• Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

  Stephen King

  Real, Writing, People

  "Stephen King says ‘Twilight’ author ‘can't write’". www.today.com. February 4, 2009.

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• My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Ocean, Journey

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Eye, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

  David Bohm

  Block, People, Leader

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