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It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of… — Richard Wurmbrand
His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted… — Ian Rankin
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot… — Frantz Fanon
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points… — Sarah Dessen
The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also. — Joanne Greenberg
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to… — James E. Talmage
It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.… — Anton Chekhov
Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted — Charles Bukowski
Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can… — Azar Nafisi
We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire… — Tonya Hurley
There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles… — Louis L'Amour
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of… — Chinua Achebe
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of… — Paulo Coelho
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it… — Toni Morrison
Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, dâ€™yeh remember it?"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I… — Libba Bray

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