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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you…
— Gautama Buddha
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All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling…
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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you…
— Alan Watts
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My light shines when things get really tough.
— Tippi Hedren
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Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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In the broken places, the light shines through.
— Leonard Cohen
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The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more…
— Reba McEntire
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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
— Jon Krakauer
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It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all.…
— Alison Croggon
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The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
— Ted Dekker
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