Invitations Quotes
289 quotes by 255 authors
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Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.
— Dean Koontz
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These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask…
— Libba Bray
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It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were…
— W G Sebald
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We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
— Donald Miller
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But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable…
— Mary Oliver
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each…
— John Ortberg
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I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation…
— Emma Forrest
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The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform…
— Albert Camus
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They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear.…
— Stephen Dobyns
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
— Henry David Thoreau
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although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party…
— E. Lockhart
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Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don't know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see…
— Julie Anne Peters
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
— Harper Lee
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On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will take place, the…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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