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“So I was communicating directly with God? Absolutely. Expressed that way, it sounds grandiose. But when it was happening, it didn't feel that way. Instead, I felt like I was doing what every soul i...”
“Hearing my story seemed to give him a license he had been longing for someone to give him: the license to believe what he had seen with his own eyes--to KNOW that deep and comforting truth: that ou...”
“Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.”
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”
“No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, youll have to pass and move on.”
“When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you'...”
“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child between the ages of three and six is too dependent on parental love and approval to ...”
“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is always smiling and agreeable. "Such a nice man," people say. "He never gets ang...”
“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
“I was born for the peaceful life,for rural quiet:the lyre's voice in the wild is more resounding,creative dreams are more alive.To harmless leisures consecrated,I wander by a wasteful lakeand far n...”
“With belles no longer did he fall in love,but dangled after them just anyhow;when they refused, he solaced in a twinkle;when they betrayed, was glad to rest.He would seek them without intoxication,...”
“Life isnt fair." I said. "Its taken me a while to get that. Its always going to disappoint you in some way or another. Youll make plans, and itll push you in another direction. You will love people...”
“My fear for you outweighs my fear of him, he said simply. And I told you, didnt I? If you left, Id follow you.But should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the earth t...”
“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few fra...”
“Fear was like heat applied to steal: Applied correctly it might forge a blade; overused, it turned metal to slag.”
“Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.”
“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter ...”
“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”
“The truth is that you are afraid.''Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.”
