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When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen. Marianne Williamson
E. E. Cummings quote: "An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that..."
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects E. E. Cummings
Even for those thousands of young people who don’t get something out there [in a university writing program], the process is still a noble one — the process of trying to say something, of working through craft issues and the worldview issues and the ego issues — all of this is character-building, and, God forbid, everything we do should have concrete career results. I’ve seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person George Saunders
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete. Aristotle
He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned. Nicholas Sparks
The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions. Mark Twain
Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made. Samuel Beckett
Alice Hoffman quote: "No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a..."
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. Alice Hoffman
Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did. Wally Lamb
Jane Austen quote: "Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very..."
Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age? Jane Austen
Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems] Vincent Van Gogh
A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups. William James
In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it's the classics that are to blame. Today the student asserts his incapacity as a privilege. I can't learn it, so there is something wrong with it. And there is something especially wrong with the bad teacher who wants to teach it. There are no more criteria, Mr. Zuckerman, only opinions. Philip Roth
Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain.It's yours. It's all yours for taking!You're not going to waste it now, are you? James Patterson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person..."
What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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