Joel Osteen - Quotes

 One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.. 

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Taylor Swift - Quotes

 To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. 

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Elvis Presley - Quotes

 When things go wrong, don't go with them. 

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Margaret Atwood - Quotes

 How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next -- if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions -- you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. 

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William Shakespeare - Quotes

 Care keeps his watch in every old man 

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William Shakespeare - Quotes

 How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath

To say to me that thou art out of breath? 

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Al Sinclair - Quotes

 To me,  

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Elizabeth Gilbert - Quotes

 You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings. 

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Bruce Almighty - Quotes

 Grace:
[after Bruce was attacked by hoodlums] Oh, thank God you're all right.
Bruce:
Yeah, let's thank God, shall we? For his blessings are raining down upon me. Wait, that's not rain!
 

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Mitch Albom - Quotes

 Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive. 

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Jim Morrison - Quotes

 I'll never wake up in a good mood again.

I'm tired of these stinky boots 

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William Shakespeare - Quotes

 That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou seest the twilight of such day

As after sunset fadeth in the west,

Which by and by black night doth take away,

Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.

In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,

As the death-bed whereon it must expire

Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,

To love that well which thou must leave ere long. 

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Jane Austen - Quotes

 I will only add, God bless you.

-Fitzwilliam Darcy 

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Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. 

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Ann Druyan - Quotes

 It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. 

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Aziz Ansari - Quotes

 I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration. 

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Jim Norton - Quotes

 While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window. 

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Ezra Taft Benson - Quotes

 While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful. 

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Joel Osteen - Quotes

 You need to take pride in what God has given you. 

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Jean-Paul Belmondo - Quotes

 Being afraid is the worst sin there is. 

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Elizabeth Gilbert - Quotes

 Fear--who cares? 

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Milan Kundera - Quotes

 It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down. 

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Augustine Of Hippo - Quotes

 Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. 

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Edgar Allan Poe - Quotes

 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

Tis some visitor, 

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- Quotes

 A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.



[...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.



[...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html. 

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Rebecca Solnit - Quotes

 As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New Yorkers. Poor people--from the 'squatters' of the 1850s to the 'tramps' of the 1870s and 1890s to the Hooverville residents of the 1930s--have always turned to the park land for shelter...The growing visibility of homeless people in Central Park osed in the starkest terms the contradiction between Americans' commitment to democratic space and their acquiescence in vast disparities of wealth and power. 

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Philip K. Dick - Quotes

 A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. 

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Dr. Seuss - Quotes

 All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot! 

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Mother Teresa - Quotes

 If I look at the mass I will never act. 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely 

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Mother Teresa - Quotes

 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. 

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C.S. Lewis - Quotes

 When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. 

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Billy Joel - Quotes

 We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it 

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Andrea Michaels - Quotes

 ...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful exploration from which I can learn. Every new client or project represents the possibility of meeting new people and having new adventures. 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. 

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Alexandre Dumas - Quotes

 Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. 

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Chuck Klosterman - Quotes

 You used to be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that guy in the corner in orange safety pants holding a protest sign and wearing a top hat is mentally disabled or he is the coolest fucking guy you will ever know. 

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Frank Beddor - Quotes

 For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man. 

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Charles Dickens - Quotes

 The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them! 

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Sigmund Freud - Quotes

 (Said of the Irish)  

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Scott Lynch - Quotes

 Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours, 

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John O'Donohue - Quotes

 For Equilibrium, a Blessing:

Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,

May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.



As the wind loves to call things to dance,

May your gravity by lightened by grace.



Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,

May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.



As water takes whatever shape it is in,

So free may you be about who you become.



As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,

May your sense of irony bring perspective.



As time remains free of all that it frames,

May your mind stay clear of all it names.



May your prayer of listening deepen enough

to hear in the depths the laughter of god. 

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Corinne Bailey Rae - Quotes

 I get so breathless, when you call my name,

I've often wondered, do you feel the same?

There's a chemistry, energy, a synchronicity

When we're all alone. 

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Hugo Claus - Quotes

 I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things. 

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Tao Lin - Quotes

 There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness - like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake - he could no longer get at. 

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Noam Chomsky - Quotes

 All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quotes

 One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. 

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Toba Beta - Quotes

 Feeling harder to be oneself is a curse of popularity. 

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Martin Amis - Quotes

 Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . . 

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Fernando Pessoa - Quotes

 My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. [ 

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Robert Clark - Quotes

 Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate? 

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Gretchen Rubin - Quotes

 The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. 

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Francis Scott Key - Quotes

 O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! 

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Terry Pratchett - Quotes

 Blessings be on this house, 

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Paulo Freire - Quotes

 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.  

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Norton Juster - Quotes

 It has been a long trip, 

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Diane Ackerman - Quotes

 At some point, one asks,  

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Eric Hoffer - Quotes

 The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. 

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Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. And I can now give myself the certificate that a thoughtless word hardly ever escapes my tongue or pen. I do not recollect ever having had to regret anything in my speech or writing. I have thus been spared many a mishap and waste of time. Experience has taught my that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. We find so many people impatient to talk. There is no chairman of a meeting who is not pestered with notes for permission to speak. And whenever the permission is given the speaker generally exceeds the time-limit, asks for more time, and keeps on talking without permission. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth. 

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Tobias Wolff - Quotes

 Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out - a fence there could serve no purpose. Their work was pointless. Years later, while I was waiting for a boat to take me across the river, I watched two Vietnamese women methodically hitting a discarded truck tire with sticks. They did it for a good long while, and were still doing it when I crossed the river. They were part of the dream from which I recognized the Welches, my defeat-dream, my damnation-dream, with its solemn choreography of earnest useless acts. 

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