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• the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Giving Up, Believe

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• It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Simple

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.659, e-artnow

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• If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

  John Piper

  Strong, Long, Drunk

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.25, SPCK

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• A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sweet, Philosophy, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.34

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• These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Freedom, Book

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.108, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

  John Adams

  Trust, Mean, Thinking

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 1: Life of John Adams”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.

  Tamora Pierce

  Jobs, Knights, People

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.377, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Family, Trust

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• What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

  John Piper

  Essence, Evil, Broken

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• Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Might, Enjoy

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.374, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

  Betty Smith

  Dark, Water, Sun

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Running, Life Changing, Opportunity

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• Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lying, Eye, Boys

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.125, e-artnow

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• When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Pain, Garden, Soul

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• The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

  Steven Erikson

  Games, Iron, Envy

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• Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Balls, Realizing, Glory Days

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• In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

  Eric Liddell

  Success, Sports, Dust

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• On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.

  John Owen

  Eye, Desire, World

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• Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Suicidal, Mean

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Powerful, Mistake

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Religious, Heart, Pride

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Eugene Howard (1949). “David Brainerd: his life and diary”

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• The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

  Alan Watts

  Morning, Heart, Years

  "The essence of Alan Watts".

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• The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

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• There is no greater glory than to die for love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Cholera, Greater

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

  Stephen King

  Way, Limitless, Fluid

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.21, Anchor

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