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• To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?

  Confucius

  People, Worry, Joy

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• One does not simply walk into Mordor.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Fellowship, Lord Of The Ring

  "Fictional character: Boromir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Jobs, Believe

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Greatness, Trying, Facts

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• Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Talking

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• Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

  James Sallis

  James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.65, Oldcastle Books

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• Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go." "My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that Jem laughed out loud.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Acting, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Realizing

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• In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.

  Ari Berk

  Home, Mean, House

  Ari Berk (2011). “Death Watch”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Believe, Desire, Earth

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.298, Penguin

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• An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Optimistic, Expectations

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• The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Suffering, Fool, Ends

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

  Jay Asher

  Twenties, Three, Hundred

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, United States

  "Greenfield: Un-kept promises" by Jeff Greenfield, www.cnn.com. January 24, 2007.

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• If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

  George MacDonald

  Prayer, Genius, Answers

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7819, Delphi Classics

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• I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Nice, Home, Wine

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.175, Feiwel & Friends

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• At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kindness, Boys, Years

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• A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Toads, Daytime

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.15, Heinemann

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• I want to make a bet with you.” Her interest perked up. “You do? About what?” Already knowing it wouldn’t go over well, Spencer braced himself. “I bet you can’t go a month without cursing.” Her chin tucked in, and her brows came down. “What does that have to do with anything?” He had no idea, except that it annoying him to hear her be so coarse. “Go a month without cursing.” He hated himself, but he said, “Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

  Lori Foster

  Kissing, Ideas, Knowing

  Lori Foster (2012). “A Perfect Storm”, p.24, HQN Books

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• What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

  Marcel Proust

  Dark, Light, Mind

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.49, Vintage

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• Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Ministry, Calling

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• The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

  Veronica Roth

  Suicide, Thinking, Desire

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• The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.27, Random House

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• A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Men, Needs

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2709, Bantam

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