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Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

Wonderful Humor Straight Heart
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Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

Urge Bring Clear God
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Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Sovereign Authority Peace Situation
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God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.

Agenda Obligate Dissatisfied Complete
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Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred.

Decide Affect Scarred Sanctified
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If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Fear God Person Reason
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How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him.

Expect Prepare God Often
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Book Dance Mind Every
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Political True Using Precious
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Describe Movie Second Image
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Words Much Better Emotions
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Moral Story Temporarily Fable
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Canada Wonderful Political Faith
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

Planet Beautiful Happy Pretty
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Fiction Reality Interpret Volition
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Think Comes Sense Discomfort
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Reader's Animal Suspend Disbelief
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Deeply Realize Moment Now
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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

Success World Mad Anything
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Acceptance Looks Passive State
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Negativity Caused Accumulation Psychlogical
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Primary Unhappiness Situation Thoughts
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Thinking Wonderful Applied However
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
Inside Place Fall Right
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Preventing Action Acknowledge Fear
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own oneness with God also, so he's a precursor.

God Jesus Oneness Precursor. Realized
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Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

Faith Unshakable Belief Tremble
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Some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

Defeat Past Lost Race
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Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

Wheel Fit Grip Keep
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I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

Never Dreamed Happiness Ducking
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You have become my thinking’s single thought, My heart’s first love: it had no love before. I love you as no love on earth is wrought, I love you now and love you evermore.

Become Thinking Heart Love
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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Love Fall Because Reality
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Agent Become Entire Flower
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Busy Complete Down Ever
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Know Only One Duty
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Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Today True Truer Alive
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Read Know Learn Places
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Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Fit Stand Out Born
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From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Funny Here Everywhere Things
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Everything stinks until it’s finished.

Stinks Finished Everything Until
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We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Weird Love Life Someone
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Be awesome! Be a book nut!
Book Nut Awesome
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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Long Learn Live One
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?

People What Help Other
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Image Manner Act Believe
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All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Dream Future People Big
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You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Many Before Achieve Effort
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Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Expect Own Become With
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