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But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple,… — Mitch Albom
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.… — Agnes de Mille
The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally… — Michel Foucault
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. — Joyce Carol Oates
The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all… — C.S. Lewis
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have… — Sarah Dessen
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids… — R. Buckminster Fuller
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret… — Mary Doria Russell
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there… — J.R.R. Tolkien
So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the… — Italo Calvino
Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me,… — Italo Calvino
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.… — Unknown Author
Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother. — John Connolly
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… — Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin. — Salman Rushdie
The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to… — Caroline Knapp
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin… — Gretel Ehrlich
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't… — Bell Hooks
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity… — Peggy Noonan
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now… — Alex Haley
It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or… — William P. Young
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of… — Adrienne Rich
It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is,… — Lisa Ann Sandell

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