Something Quotes (page 105)

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• book
• this is a book
• about

this is a book about something C. S. Lewis

• motivational
• motivation
• acceptance

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal. Bill Rodgers

• confidence
• thinking
• think

I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them? J. K. Rowling

• prayer
• wants
• prayers

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them. Wally Lamb

• learning
• school
• knowledge

Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate. Bertolt Brecht

• hope
• acceptance
• ambition

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. Alain de Botton

• learning
• feeling
• storm

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something. John Muir

• caring
• bad
• great

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal. Richard Russo

• confidence
• evening
• moving

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing. Nicholas Sparks

• education
• makes
• educator

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca

• learning
• ways
• learning by doing

We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. John Holt John Holt

• today
• tomorrow
• willed

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today? Elizabeth Gilbert

• mother
• food
• memorial

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory. Mitch Albom

• evening
• scum
• even

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• end
• thinking
• different

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since, in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you? Kate DiCamillo