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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Design Life Dream Active
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You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Life Importance Courage Solve
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Effort Strength Growth Continuous
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

Favorite Addicted Reader Voracious
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Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
Reading Watching Idea Show
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If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.

Art Nice Already Next
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them you’ll find they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

Stand Strength Obstacle Half
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Failure Strong Enough Succeed
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To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs. To pray is to give Jesus permission to employ His powers in the alleviation of our distress. To pray is to let Jesus glorify His name in the midst of our needs.

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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

Interest Strong Understand Certain
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At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

Comfortable People Life Matter
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If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.

Universe Creator Whole Life
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Faith Strong Enough Journey
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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me'.

People Usable Most Wear
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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Time Worst Storm Spring
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It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Mouth Power Determine Whisper
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Most Listen Intent Reply
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Write Lot Above Thing
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Want Success Whom Much
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Love Bread Sit Stone
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I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you,

Ready Good Because Myself
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

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Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Cope Way Life Make
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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Fame Think Pay Work
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Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Read Poem Laugh Cry
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You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime.

Call Madam Always You
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

True Name Change Same
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Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Idea Done Young People
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Movies Tend Aesthetic Story
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Movies Visually Powerful Crowd
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Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Cinema Complete Experience Different
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Language Prose Cinema Movie
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Measure Quantify Human Pain
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

Consumer Hate Clothes Mobile
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.

Cities Big Style Same
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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May books spread the world over!

May Books Spread World
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In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.

Smartest People World Mistakes
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Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Face Fears Doubts Worlds
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That’s not life.

Trouble School Answer Exam
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It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

Sidelines Criticize Easier Something
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A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Afraid Truth Toughness Play
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I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Money Problem Rich Reinvest
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That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

School Write Flunked Correct
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If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

Balance Jesus Corner Beauty
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You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Amputate History Destiny Redemption
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True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Humility Intimacy God Bring
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