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“What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?”
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“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts鈥攋ust mere thoughts鈥攁re as powerful as electric batteries鈥攁s good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
"Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
― The Secret Garden
"Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
― The Secret Garden
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT
I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?
I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.
I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?
I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.
I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Build yourself up to stand out
and be recognized in a crowd.”
― Your Own Thought : A Lot of Thoughts
and be recognized in a crowd.”
― Your Own Thought : A Lot of Thoughts
“If I only could explain
How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain.”
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How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain.”
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“Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say 鈥業t all happened so fast.”
― The Mayfair Moon
― The Mayfair Moon

“I've hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it's the only way to deal with things.”
― Sometimes I Lie
― Sometimes I Lie

“Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision.”
― Not That Kind of Girl
― Not That Kind of Girl

“Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.”
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“I believe there鈥檚 someone out there for everyone,鈥 he {Isaac} says, 鈥渁nd when you meet that person, sometimes you know right away they are who you were meant to be with. And sometimes, years can go by before you let yourself believe that the feeling you鈥檝e had about a person for so long, is actually love. And what a waste that is.”
― Kindred
― Kindred

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch, and the same blow shall send the white to his grave.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?”
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?”
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“I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life

“At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren鈥檛 meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it鈥檚 inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.”
― Kindred
― Kindred
“The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.”
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“Actually, what does man live for?鈥
鈥淭o think about it. Any other question?鈥
鈥淵es. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?鈥 鈥淪ome people die without having become more sensible.鈥
鈥淒on鈥檛 evade my question. And don鈥檛 start talking about the transmigration of souls.鈥
鈥淚鈥檒l ask you something else first. Lions kill antelopes; spiders flies; foxes chickens; which is the only race in the world that wars on itself uninterruptedly, fighting and killing one another?鈥
鈥淭hose are questions for children. The crown of creation, of course, the human being鈥 who invented the words love, kindness, and mercy.鈥 鈥淕ood. And who is the only being in Nature that is capable of committing suicide and does it?鈥 鈥淎gain the human being鈥 who invented eternity, God, and resurrection.鈥
鈥淓xcellent,鈥 Ravic said. 鈥淵ou see of how many contradictions we consist. And you want to know why we die?”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
鈥淭o think about it. Any other question?鈥
鈥淵es. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?鈥 鈥淪ome people die without having become more sensible.鈥
鈥淒on鈥檛 evade my question. And don鈥檛 start talking about the transmigration of souls.鈥
鈥淚鈥檒l ask you something else first. Lions kill antelopes; spiders flies; foxes chickens; which is the only race in the world that wars on itself uninterruptedly, fighting and killing one another?鈥
鈥淭hose are questions for children. The crown of creation, of course, the human being鈥 who invented the words love, kindness, and mercy.鈥 鈥淕ood. And who is the only being in Nature that is capable of committing suicide and does it?鈥 鈥淎gain the human being鈥 who invented eternity, God, and resurrection.鈥
鈥淓xcellent,鈥 Ravic said. 鈥淵ou see of how many contradictions we consist. And you want to know why we die?”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“... people, who always look for what they don鈥檛 have, don鈥檛 see what they have and dream of what they don鈥檛 really need.”
― Emotional Moments
― Emotional Moments
“Similar to a how a flower grows incrementally, people also blossom in stages. As we age, we expand our knowledge of how the world works and how other people respond to our deeds. We also expand our language skills in order to communicate both our thoughts and feelings.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls

“As the master creators on this planet, we can improve conditions for all and learn greater respect for others.”
― Voice of Reason
― Voice of Reason

“Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes.”
― Voice of Reason
― Voice of Reason

“Far from being incompatible, politics and Christianity are, in reality, inseparable. What don't mix are Christianity and social apathy.
(p. 117)”
― Intelligent Church: A Journey Towards Christ-Centred Community
(p. 117)”
― Intelligent Church: A Journey Towards Christ-Centred Community
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