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• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.183, Penguin

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• Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heart, Needs, Force

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• In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.

  Tom Robbins

  Struggle, Home, Maturity

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• Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Light, Evil, Giving

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.366, Head of Zeus

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• She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Voice, Roots, Dust

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Relationship, Letting Go, Running

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• Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Heart, New Beginnings

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings”, p.77, Thomas Nelson

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• But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.

  George Orwell

  Party, Blow, Hatred

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

  Walter Dean Myers

  Mother, Song, Sweet

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• But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Silence, God's Creation

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• Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Sweet, Pain

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.205

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• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Kissing

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

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• If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

  Mitch Albom

  Goodbye, Sleep, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Crazy, Fire Of Love

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• He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be They condition themselves to not embrace what they are Love is a clinging nausea I tried to disagree with him It was no use I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Eye, Love Is

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• Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions. Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.

  Gena Showalter

  Mom, Making Love, Emotion

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• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

  Garth Stein

  Soul, Care, Nervous

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

  Thomas Merton

  Moving On, Faith, Courage

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.206, Image

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• Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth... Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Reality, Race

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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• The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Life Learning, Reason

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Delight, Deliverance, Thousand

  Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

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• I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Strong, People, New Life

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Butterfly, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Rainbow, Crowds, Addresses

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.50, Vintage

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