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Jose Rizal quote: "The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're..."
The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're the first ones to not believe in Him! Jose Rizal
The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one’s inner life, one’s philosophy, and one’s perspective. It was best to accept old age, death, injustice, hardship – all of these were part of living David Guterson
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth. Larry McMurtry
Donna Tartt quote: "They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance..."
They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. Donna Tartt
Anthony Kiedis quote: "Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best..."
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions. Anthony Kiedis
The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another. Gordon B. Hinckley
It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if they did not. Barbara Kingsolver
Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died. Suzanne Collins
William Congreve quote: "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we..."
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand William Congreve
Jane Austen quote: "If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I..."
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. Jane Austen
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. George Eliot
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them. Cesare Pavese
Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life. Deepak Chopra
Both money and art powdered as they are with the romance and poetry of the age are magic. Rather money is magic art is magik. Money is stagecraft slight of hand a bag of clever tricks. Art is a plexus of forces and influences that act upon the senses by means of practical yet permanently inexplicable secret links. Admittedly the line between the two can be as thin as a dime. Tom Robbins
And the beasts of the earth and the birds looked down, In a wild solemnity, On a stranger sight than a sylph or elf, On one man laughing at himself. Under the greenwood tree-The giant laughter of Christian men. That roars through a thousand tales, Where greed is an ape and pride is an ass, And Jack's away with his master's lass, And the miser is banged with all his brass, The farmer with all his flails; Tales that tumble and tales that trick, Yet end not all in scorning-Of kings and clowns in... Gilbert K. Chesterton

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