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Being Quotes (page 344)

C. S. Lewis quote: "And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary,..."
And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis
Tom Robbins quote: "Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am..."
Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free. And the world is round round round. Tom Robbins
Alain de Botton quote: "Must being in love always mean being in pain?"
Must being in love always mean being in pain? Alain de Botton
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. Octavia Butler
If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting. Jodi Picoult
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter. Toni Morrison
It seems whenever we get too high hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving some thug nation comes along and decides we're a pushover all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up mighty anxiously to be sure the flag is still waving over us. Jimmy Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy George M. Cohan
Hippocrates quote: "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food."
Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. Hippocrates
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self. Thomas Merton
Charlaine Harris quote: " what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other..."
.. what she had was hers absolutely, not to be touched by other hands without proper permission being asked and granted. Charlaine Harris
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born..."
Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be. L. M. Montgomery
Keep busy, Sandy ... when you're busy you don't have time to brood ..."Life should be more than keeping busy."Maybe it should be, but for most of us, it's not. Judy Blume
Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment. Elizabeth Gaskell
Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on forever; goes down to the bottom of the world -- this moment I stand on. Also it is transitory, flying, diaphanous. I shall pass like a cloud on the waves. Perhaps it may be that though we change, one flying after another, so quick, so quick, yet we are somehow successive and continuous we human beings, and show the light through. But what is the light? Virginia Woolf
Pierre Trudeau quote: "The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be..."
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. Pierre Trudeau

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