Findings Quotes - Page 36

• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

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• But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

  Haruki Murakami

  Names, Giving, Mind

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given this new life because I can-and do-drink to my heart's content.

  Beverly Lewis

  Spring, Reading, Heart

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• I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Night, Wandering Around

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1183, Simon and Schuster

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• In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Heart, Museums, Losing

  "Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

  Kim Harrison

  Kids, White, Nails

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• I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.

  David Malouf

  Real, Faults, Transformation

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.58, Random House

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• No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

  Andre Gide

  Book, Heart, Leaving

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• I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Say Anything, Awful, Trouble

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.185, Macmillan

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• An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mean, Mind, Ends

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• So who do you want to be?” I smiled, resting my head against his chest. “I’m not sure yet, but I’m looking forward to finding out.

  Kiersten White

  Want, Looking Forward, Not Sure

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• The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of surprise. I never know what is coming next. The phrase that sounds in the head changes when it appears on the page. Then I start probing it with a pen, finding new meanings. Sometimes I burst out laughing at what is happening as I twist and turn sentences. Strange business, all in all. One never gets to the end of it. That’s why I go on, I suppose. To see what the next sentences I write will be.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Laughing, Interesting

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• It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

  Mark Haddon

  Believe, Evil, World

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Jan 16, 2017

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• You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we’re on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mean, Eye, Past

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Oct 26, 2012

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• Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Listening, Usual

  Jane Austen (2015). “Northanger Abbey: Horror and Romance”, p.87, 谷月社

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• I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

  James Cameron

  Strong, Character, Interesting

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• So, are you two going to get married already or waht?" I laughed. "Excuse me?" Carlee rolled her eyes. "Please. You don't even look at other guys. And I have never seen a guy that crazy about a girl before. You're like, his entire world." I shrugged, smiling. "I can't imagine ever finding someone better than Lend. He just--knows me. Totally. Everything. And miraculously he still likes me." "Likes? Girls, he head-over-heels-freaking-loves you." "It's mutual!

  Kiersten White

  Girl, Crazy, Love You

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• No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

  Megan Abbott

  Age, Tilt, Rats

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.

  Karl Pilkington

  Glasses, London, Pebbles

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Max - you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You know, Voice, I thought finally, my friends are my world.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Voice, Clouds

  "The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Book 1)". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  People, Going Out

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Taken, Order, Decision

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• Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

  Trudi Canavan

  Order, Needs, Reason

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• Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Strong, Heart, Long Ago

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.85, Macmillan

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• When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.

  Glenn Beck

  Drinking, Broken Inside, People

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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