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We have, let us face it and admit it, little influence. We prey on them, and we take from them, and we get by; we strip and we whore and we drink too much; we pump gas and we steal and we cheat and we exist in the cracks at the edges of society. Old gods, here in this new land without gods. Neil Gaiman
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart. Mother Teresa
The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can. Julia Cameron
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for. Julian Barnes
Clive Barker quote: "Any fool can be happy. It takes a man w a real heart to make..."
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man w a real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep Clive Barker
William Blake quote: "May God us keep. From Single vision and Newton's sleep."
May God us keep. From Single vision and Newton's sleep. William Blake
Lussurioso: "Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!"Vindice: "With all my heart, i'faith. How dost, sweet musk-cat? When shall we lie together?"Lussurioso: (aside) "Wondrous knave! Gather him into boldness? 'Sfoot, the slave's. Already as familiar as an ague, And shakes me at his pleasure! -- Friend, I can. Forget myself in private, but elsewhere, I pray do you remember be."Vindice: "Oh, very well, sir. I conster myself saucy."Lussurioso: "What... Thomas Middleton
Joseph Joubert quote: "The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us..."
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books. Joseph Joubert
Ray Bradbury quote: "The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the..."
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Ray Bradbury
Paulo Coelho quote: "God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up..."
God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him. Paulo Coelho
Marion Zimmer Bradley quote: "By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new."
By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. Marion Zimmer Bradley
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur Schopenhauer
My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with "aha" -- while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over. Stephen Jay Gould
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Anne Lamott
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. Sidney Sheldon

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