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• He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  Laughing, Satisfaction, Mines

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.69, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives.

  Eric Ludy

  Attitude, Loving Nature, House

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “When God Writes Your Life Story: Experience the Ultimate Adventure”, p.146, Multnomah

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• Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?

  Nick Hornby

  Smart, Odds, People

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• And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

  Christine Feehan

  Hurt, Giving, Vulnerable

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• Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

  Jillian Michaels

  Journey, Long, Self Improvement

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• If you want to learn anything, learn trust - nothing else id needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help - learn trust. If you don't feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help - learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Giving, Want

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• He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me.

  Jay Asher

  Heart, Air, Car

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.219, Penguin

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• One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

  John Gardner

  Crazy, Writing, Littles

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• Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

  James Frey

  Trauma, Stills

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• And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real. She won battles that would otherwise have been lost because of what those voices told her in advance of them allowing the French generals to strategize in ways completely different than they did before Joan came along. People’s lives were saved because of what those voices told her.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Real, Men

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• She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then she imagined Hal giving a rousing eulogy at her funeral explaining how Kendra's death was a beautiful sacrifice allowing the noble zombies to live on delighting future generations by mindlessly trying to eat them. With her luck it could totally happen.

  Brandon Mull

  Beautiful, Running, Sacrifice

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• But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look

  Deb Caletti

  Loyalty, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Long, People

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• I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.

  Wes Moore

  Second Chance, Lasts, Sometimes

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.67, Spiegel & Grau

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• Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

  Gail Carriger

  Agreement, Nocturnal, Realizing

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

  Anais Nin

  Sky, Rejection, Rebuttal

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• Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.

  Darynda Jones

  Believe, People, Looks

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.

  Karl Rahner

  Spring, Love You, Heart

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• A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

  Karl Popper

  Ideas, Important, Opinion

  Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.84, Routledge

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• Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?

  Kristin Cashore

  Mother, Jobs, Queens

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• My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos.

  Darynda Jones

  Errors, Warning, Tacos

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.53, Macmillan

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love, Relationship, Light

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.48, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Opportunity, Perfection

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