Thy Quotes (page 55)

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• life
• blessed
• gift

This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world. Anthony de Mello

• learning
• joy
• moving

This day was only the first of man similar ones for the emancipated Mole, each of them longer and fuller of interest as the ripening summer moved onward. He learned to swim and to row, and entered into the joy of running water; and with his ear to the reed stems he caught, at intervals, something of what the wind went whispering so constantly among them. Kenneth Grahame

• knowledge
• different
• manly

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• good
• drinking
• world

This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink. Robert Browning

• actionable
• action
• actions

This is passive-aggression in action. Chuck Palahniuk

• time
• rich
• finishers

This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken. Gustave Flaubert

• wallpaper
• wills
• dread

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. Oscar Wilde

• pipe
• pipes

This is not a pipe. Rene Magritte

• advanced
• potter
• advancement

This is your copy of Advanced Potion-Making, is it, Potter? J. K. Rowling

• wonder
• jokes
• promise

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. Kate DiCamillo

• life
• art
• mirror

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around. Terry Prachett

• good
• happy friendship
• father and daughter

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was about: Love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, power, justice,... Julian Barnes

• best
• learning
• lesson

This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero! Sivananda

• family
• power words
• black

This book will prove the following ten facts:1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch.3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity.4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight.5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast.6. An Englishman's home is his castle.7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.8. One black eye deserves another.9. Space is the final... Diana Wynne Jones

• eyes
• waiting
• yours

This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me. Rod McKuen