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Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Julian Barnes quote: "No sooner do we come into this world, than bits of us start to..."
No sooner do we come into this world, than bits of us start to fall off. Julian Barnes
But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than either of them had experienced before. Since everything felt right when they were together, everything felt wrong when they weren't. Nicholas Sparks
I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain. Nora Roberts
Emiliano Zapata quote: "It's better to die standing than live on your knees."
It's better to die standing than live on your knees. Emiliano Zapata
You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me to believe that you're doing it just to hurt me. If there's one thing I've come to know about you, it's that you're not even capable of something like that. Why do you think I like spending time with you so much? Because you're a good guy. A nice guy. Nicholas Sparks
... keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.-Letter One Rainer Maria Rilke
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away? Voltaire
More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward. . . . . Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts. And so the... Barack Obama
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What mattered was something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image - it was a concept of goodness based upon the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It was the affirmation of the human and the natural. Anne Rice
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light. Albert Schweitzer
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches. Charles Spurgeon
Derrick Jensen quote: "Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more..."
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. Derrick Jensen
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be..."
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country. Hubert H. Humphrey

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