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John Muir quote: "I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s..."
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. John Muir
It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well. Suzanne Collins
Remember what things make you special and embrace those because there are so many things that aren’t on the outside that are so important and people find so beautiful. Miley Cyrus
when i am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. it seems more real than you are-more real than the school room. i feel as if i were all the people in the story-one after the other. it's queer." -sara Frances Hodgson Burnett
Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. Charlie Kaufman
James Lee Burke quote: "A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes..."
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves James Lee Burke
He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support. Mary Renault
Brian Tracy quote: "it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for..."
it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying , "I am responsible Brian Tracy
I wasn't kidding about the flying-kids part. Or the talking-dog part. Anyone who's up to speed on the Adventures of Amazing Max and Her Flying, Fun-Loving Cohorts, you can skip this next page or so. Those of you who picked up this book cold, even thought it's clearly part three of the series, well, get with the program, people! I can't take two days to get you caught up on everything! Here's the abbreviated version (which is pretty, I might add): A bunch of mad scientists (mad crazy not mad... James Patterson
The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair, and death. Let these revelers feel a chill as they loll on their towels. Anatole Broyard
The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable. Clifford Geertz
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to... Alice Walker
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "June always said that most people bit off more than they could..."
June always said that most people bit off more than they could chew, but August chewed more than she bit off. Sue Monk Kidd
She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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