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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again. Years and years unto years, till we attain. To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign. John Donne
a sudden squawked command caused everyone within earshot to act for a split second as if they were shaking invisible martinis Tom Robbins
Ours is a bourgeois civilization. I am not using this term in its Marxian sense. Chicken! In the vocabularies of modern art and religion it is bourgeois to consider that the universe was made for our safe use and to give us comfort, ease, and support. Light travels at a quarter of a million miles per second so that we can see to comb our hair or read in the paper that ham hocks are cheaper than yesterday. De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses... Saul Bellow
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened. Desmond Tutu
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it. Douglas Adams
It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment. Jeanette Winterson
It surprised him that she was the one who looked stricken with fear, as if she were a prisoner in the passenger seat and saw the fast-approaching collision seconds before the drive could react to it. Bonnie pinched her lower lip with her teeth and stared at Jack as if she were transfixed--as if he were the upcoming accident, and, even though she saw him coming, she couldn't turn away. John Irving
Don’t cry, Booboo. Remember the flag only halfway up the pole? Booboo, there are two ways to lower a flag to half-mast. Are you listening? Because no shit I really have to sleep here in a second. So listen - one way to lower the flag to half mast is just to lower the flag. There’s another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height. You get me? You understand what I mean, Mario? David Foster Wallace
Paulo Coelho quote: "We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when..."
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop. Paulo Coelho
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction. Anais Nin
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was..."
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. Jeffrey Eugenides
A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given. C. S. Lewis
When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they liveeach moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, theydo not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real alwaysfinds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, theydo not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single... Paulo Coelho
Henri Nouwen quote: "First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the..."
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak. Henri Nouwen
Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and nature, fourth he continually invented new tables of values and for a time took each of them to be eternal and unconditional...If one deducts the effect of these four errors, one has also deducted away humanity, humaneness, and 'human dignity'. Friedrich Nietzsche

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