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• Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the kingdom of Gondor sank into ruin, the line of kings failed, the white tree withered and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Stars, Son

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• There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

  Dean Koontz

  Literature, World, Found

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.419, Bantam

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• The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom. Our practice is to make ourselves ready for the kingdom so that it can manifest in the here and the now. You don't need to die in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. In fact, you have to be truly alive in order to do so.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Practice, Heaven

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• Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

  Thomas Paine

  Islands, Supposing That, Care

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.40

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• We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Real, Nice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.280, A&C Black

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• Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

  Billy Corgan

  Fashion, Sadness, Bullshit

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• But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

  Marcel Proust

  Doors, Illumination, Years

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.137, Marcel Proust

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• He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Thinking, Heaven

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

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• If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Book, Reading

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• A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

  Og Mandino

  Smile, Vanquish, Inexpensive

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Destiny, Order

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• We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Servant Of God, Order, Justice

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• Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Stars, Reflection, Light

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• We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the Kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy, too. But I guess that's why God invented highlighers, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Giving, Guy

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.

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• Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Miracle, Luck

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• my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder" lover you should have come over-

  Jeff Buckley

  Kissing, Should Have, Lovers

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• It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.

  Jean Ferris

  Running, People, Remember

  Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.436, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life. Our home port is the celestial kingdom of God. Our purpose is to steer an undeviating course in that direction. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: Chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Men, Sea

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• The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

  Fred Rogers

  Broken, Kingdom Of God, Hearted

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• Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Childhood, Age

  Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

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• Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Soulmate, Fall

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspiring, Dog, Food

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• A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Wise, Queens

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• Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Land, Thrones

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Long, Poet

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