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Meister Eckhart quote: "If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that..."
If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that would suffice. Meister Eckhart
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they..."
Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist. Ryszard Kapuscinski
Nora Roberts quote: "A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the..."
A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having. Nora Roberts
Silas continued, in his voice like velvet, "You had parents. An older sister. They were killed. I believe that you were to have been killed as well, and that you were not was due to chance, and the intervention of the Owenses."And you," said Bod, who had had that night described to him over the years by many people, some of whom had even been there. It had been a big night in the graveyard. Silas said, "Out there, the man who killed your family is, I believe, still looking for you, still... Neil Gaiman
It’s important to understand that in the Third World most driving is done with the horn, or “Egyptian Brake Pedal,” as it is known. There is a precise and complicated etiquette of horn use. Honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road 2. When anything doesn’t. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times. P. J. O'Rourke
Antonio Porchia quote: "Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison."
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. Antonio Porchia
Stephen King quote: "When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to..."
When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch. Stephen King
It's only just beginning to occur to me that it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on. [...] You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one guy on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd... Nick Hornby
And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone, and not in cruel pleasures as now? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Freedom continues to be the thing I prize most in the world. Of course, this has led me to drink wines I did not like, to do things I should not have done and which I will not do again; it has left scars on my body and on my soul, it has meant hurting certain people, although I have since asked their forgiveness, when I realized that I could do absolutely anything except force another person to follow me in my madness, in my lust for life. I don’t regret the painful times; I bear my scars... Paulo Coelho
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is..."
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. Isaac Bashevis Singer
You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride."I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. Frederick Douglass
It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. "Don't let him take you from me." Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging his head. "No. I don't want to. . ." I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate... Suzanne Collins

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