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• When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Yoga, Heaven, Praying

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• Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Christmas, Struggle, Caring

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• When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Change, Business

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• Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

  Bruce Feiler

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

  Aberjhani

  Moving, Ignorance, Ideas

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• .. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to act from the Divine Center of Silence and allow the glory of the Presence to soak our every movement.

  Andrew Harvey

  Choices, Silence, Different

  Andrew Harvey (2013). “The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi”, p.120, North Atlantic Books

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• She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Party, Independent, Heard

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “Vile Bodies”, p.23, Obelix Books

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• It was only after I untied my girlfriend from being face down on the bed that I learned her screaming, 'Asshole!' was a statement about my character and not an invitation or request.

  David Henry

  Girlfriend, Character, Bed

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• And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really tend to make Men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would have given Men so many Invitations, and almost Necessities, to study and contemplate the Nature of his Creatures: Of these Invitations divers have been mention'd already, and more might be added to them, if we thought it requisite.

  Robert Boyle

  God, Science, Men

  "Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy".

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• Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.

  Vicki Brown

  Dog, Believe, Cat

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• When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Kindness, Fall, Caring

  "We Choose Dignity" by Jens Stoltenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, Limits, Retreat

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• Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples. They saw where he lived and began to know him. They would not have to be heralds of an idea, but witnesses of a person. Before being sent to evangelize, they would have to "be" with Jesus (cf. Mark 3:14), establishing a personal relationship with him. With this foundation, evangelization is no more than a proclamation of what has been experienced and an invitation to enter into the mystery of communion with Christ (cf. 1 John 13).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Teacher, Jesus, Adventure

  "Apostles Proclaim Christ, Not an Idea, Says Pope". zenit.org. March 22, 2006.

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• I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Bullying, Party

  "I beat the bullying bitches… now I steer clear of suck-ups" by Emily Fairbairn, www.thesun.co.uk. March 07, 2013.

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• Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

  Lord Byron

  Party, Drunk, Firsts

  "'Tis a strange serpent - 10 of the most entertaining drinking bouts in literature" by Mark Forsyth, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2017.

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• Is that an invitation?” “I suppose it is.” “Good.” Cade’s voice dropped lower, adding one last thing before hanging up. “And tell your friend in the striped shirt that he’s in my seat.

  Julie James

  Voice, Lasts, Shirts

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.65, Penguin

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• Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Looks, Extravagance, Lovers

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1976). “Poems, 1906 to 1926”

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• How sweet a thing it is to love and to be loved again.

  Henry Howard Brownell

  Sweet, Wedding Invitation

  Henry Howard BROWNELL (1847). “Poems”, p.169

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• These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

  Libba Bray

  Hurt, Hard Times, Appreciate

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

  Giannina Braschi

  Baby, Memories, News

  "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1983.

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• The resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our 'no' for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life. The good news of the resurrection of Jesus is not that we shall die and go home to be with him, but that he has risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick prisoner brothers with him.

  Clarence Jordan

  God, Death, Christian

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

  Hugh Prather

  Boredom, Looks, Way

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.34, Bantam

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• A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Loyalty, Real, Adversity

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• It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.

  W. G. Sebald

  Space, House, Waiting

  W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Song, Philosophy

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