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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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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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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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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 have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Dream Judged Children Nation
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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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So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT

Experience Often Connections Hardship
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Hope Simplicity Sex Nonchallant
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire: in the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love Friendship Caught Fire
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I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.

Attention Because Deceived Pay
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I never ever paid attention to any election.

Any Attention Election Ever
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Happen Lip Their Came
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

Actually Always Because Better
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For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.

Woman Work Absorbed Gaining
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It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.

Meant Coat Hiding Body
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Beaten Won You
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Real Knowledge Ignorance Extent
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Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.

Life Human Heart Benefit
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I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

I Can Imagine Myself Palestinian
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When you do children's TV or one episode guest stuff, you have to listen, which is also a great thing to learn. But you don't have individual input.

Children Episode Guest TV
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After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

Rain Sunshine Darkness Dawn
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If you have attended 200 weddings and you are still single you are not different from a canopy.

Single Still Canopy Different
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Channel Master Water Bend
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The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Share Gift Give People
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Anger Hot Coal Intent
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Enjoy Good True Bring
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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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I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Luck Quite Show Found
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Grow Star Toward More
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Clear Goal People Far
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The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

Coward Man Love Awaken
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Some will hate you pretend they love you now then behind they try to eliminate you.

Some Hate Pretend Love
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One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Respect Form Sincere Say
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Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.

Need Ignore Hurt Real
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If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.

Pain Sit Time Respect
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Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.

Some People Are Wired
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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Consideration Considerations Deliver Method
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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Across Carry Emotion Intelligence
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

Lens Nature Soul Angel
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We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Learn Better Worth Wealth
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Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Live Love Listen Speak
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Potential Virtue Consistency
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

True Always Come Power
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Practice Virtue Kind
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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do.

Hurt Hungry Beaten Rape
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Life Save Own First
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Listen Hear Voice God
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