A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

Author: Hugh Mackay

Author: Hugh Mackay

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You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

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When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all m

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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we ma

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The forms of the central and surrounding deities... should not be protruding like a clay statue or c

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For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it I do

Author: Gloria Steinem
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

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Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how 

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Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to

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All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Author: Voltaire
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You must keep looking on the bright side, because you won't find anything in the dark.

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If you don’t learn to control your mind, your mind will control you.

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To Love The Kingdom Life Is A Choice

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While explaining God to his granddaughter Daska, Horace Dade Ashton said, 'God was everything she br

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The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil

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Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart

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What we think is more important in life, is just an excuse for not trying hard enough for what is ri

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A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the s

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Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

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Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sa

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Speakers are very busy people, with their own lives.Once you remember that sentence then it’s easy t

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What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It

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I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silen

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I've come to realize that life is neither a battle nor a game to be won, it is a game nonetheless, b

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He was here! And he was performing live and in-person girl porn—household tasks!

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I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Us is my favorite people.

Author: Rick Riordan
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And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awa

Author: Norton Juster
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In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I

Author: Joaquin Miller
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Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid

Author: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Myths have a very long memory.

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Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up.“Don’t bother,” Esrahaddon told them. “She’s dead, a

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Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing to

Author: Elbert Hubbard
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That’s not necessary,” Mr. Bradshaw said, “although you are all perfectly welcome in the guest rooms

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Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or r

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convi

Author: Orison Swett Marden
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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknow

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Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built

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If we desire to be close to Spirit of God, we desire to dwell in clean soul with a clean body.

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See, admit it, you need my help.” “Fine. I need you… your help.” My admission made Ace’s half smile

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Isabel wondered if there would ever be a time when she could stop being careful. If there would ever

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I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

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The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

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True love doesn't need proof.The eyes told what heart felt.

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Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people

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I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's

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The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

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Everyone kept asking me to stay, so I did.

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In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic

Author: David Byrne
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Live earnestly and respond consciously with love.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Don't give up too early because everyone is ahead of you and you are far behind them. Set a standard

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If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative’", t

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However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to u

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In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

Author: Robert L. O'Connell
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We live in an upside-down world. People hate when they should love, quarrel when they should be frie

Author: Billy Graham
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Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be i

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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment w

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I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the sa

Author: Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Lance?” I hear him whisper in the darkness.“Yeah, babe, I'm here.”“Come to bed.”I undress and crawl

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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

Author: Salman Rushdie
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When I'm all grown up, come what may,I'll build a boat to carry me away

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Author: Francois Truffaut
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who

Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the Midol.

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I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read I know t

Author: Alberto Manguel
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Heroes make us smile because they not only rescue us outwardly, but inwardly too.

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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that c

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Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by ma

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I never knew this, but today i know how it feels when you try to hold on to some situation, some fee

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Dream again, think again, and live again.

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I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's

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Pinecones. Little works of art. Prickly. Reminders of fall. Similar to pineapples. A sign of welcome

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The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misle

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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May those who follow their fate be granted happiness

Author: Unknown
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Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and

Author: Hazel Rochman
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I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.

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The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

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The best gift that we can give to our friends is true love and sincere appreciation.

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When you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.

Author: Dr. Seuss
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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God bogg

Author: Graham Greene
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In all spheres of life, there are constraints. You have to develop your own strategy to overcome eac

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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves that relieves them of the

Author: Ivan Turgenev
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All men are born truthful and die liars.

Author: Vauvenargues
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The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your

Author: Bill Jensen
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Scarce was the verdict spoken,When that still calm was broken,A childish form hath burst into the th

Author: Lewis Carroll
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Life wants you to thrive in the domain of your own unique creative vision for your yourself.

Author: Bryant McGill
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Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.

Author: Mark Donnelly
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There is no second place for doing first rate work.

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Smrt je preseljenje iz kuće u kuću. To nije nestanak već drugo rođenje. Kao što prsne ljuska jajeta

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Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the

Author: Michael F. Bird
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I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I though

Author: Penelope Cruz
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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Author: John Irving
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Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsi

Author: Helen Hayes
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When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it

Author: Billy Graham
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He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer f

Author: Miriam Toews
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The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Author: Erasmus
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

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