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4334 quotes by 2712 authors
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I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept…
— Deepak Chopra
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking…
— Anne Carson
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For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in…
— James Patterson
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Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over…
— Julie Otsuka
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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
— Oscar Wilde
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When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure…
— N. T. Wright
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Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
— Rachel Cohn
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Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to…
— Julian Barnes
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin…
— Khalil Gibran
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Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages…
— Charles Dickens
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Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.
— Ann Brashares
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Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremble,…
— Lauren Oliver
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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with…
— Ann Patchett
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And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick…
— Suzanne Collins
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When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of…
— Kristin Hannah
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The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood…
— Herbert Marcuse
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As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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