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• Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

  Warren Miller

  Adventure, People, Common

  "Snowriders". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

  Donald Miller

  Worship, Glory, Artwork

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.

  Mary Oliver

  Light, Done, Holiness

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Blue Iris: Poems and Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

  Emma Forrest

  Men, Cartoon, Swagger

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

  John Ortberg

  Prayer, Mind, Today

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.135, Harper Collins

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• I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced air, and turned his back to me. “Was that an invitation, Ms.Lane?” “If it was?” I asked, astonishing myself. What did I think I was doing? “I don’t do hypotheticals. Little girl.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Girl, Dark, Thinking

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.619, Dell

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• It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Together, World

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• Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Meditation, Used

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• Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure?

  Stephen King

  Dark, Light, May

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• You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Heart, Eye, Understanding

  Joyce DiDonato's Commencement Address at the Juilliard School in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.

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• I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Opportunity, Destiny, Interesting

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.22, A&C Black

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• I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

  Meg Cabot

  Spaceships, Staring, Shows

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• It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Rivers, Temptation

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.666, Delphi Classics

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• Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Passion, Three

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.64, Vintage

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• The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sexy, Eye, Play

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.63, St. Martin's Press

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• I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

  Dan Flavin

  Light, Use, Contemplating

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• Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.

  Genevieve

  Dream, Fall, Blessing

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• Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Brother, Fall, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 85), 1895.

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• When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

  Richard Rohr

  Exercise, Elude Us, Response

  "Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

  Christopher Moore

  Law, Vampire, Cop

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping: Book 1: Pine Cove Series”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, America, Progress

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

  Eliza Leslie

  Giving, Bores, Giving In

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.58

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• Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Suicide, Creativity, History

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• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Past, Imagination

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• Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.

  Peter Galison

  Real, Book, Apology

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