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• I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Mind, Action

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• Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Gathering

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• The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Decay, Pieces

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.21, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

  Jane Yolen

  Important, Helping, Language

  Jane Yolen (1981). “Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood”, Philomel

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• Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Memories, Desire, Impulse

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.142, Vintage

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• Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fire, Flames, Rose

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Grief, Joy, Soul

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina”, p.932, Xist Publishing

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• Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware at the time. To inhabit your own contentment is to be wholly present, with no orbiting satellite to take clinical readings of the state of the planet. Conventionally, you grow conscious of happiness at the very point that it begins to elude you. When not misused to talk yourself into something - when not a lie - the h-word is a classification applied in retrospect. It is a bracketing assessment, a label only decisively pasted onto an era once it is over.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Reading, Elude You

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• What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

  H. G. Wells

  Strong, Wall, Men

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• Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Mean, Achieve

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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• I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

  Isak Dinesen

  Real, Destiny, Thinking

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• Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Passion, Profound

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Taming, Body

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.351

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• Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Science, Thinking

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• There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Reason, Human Condition

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul. It had indeed been an error. It had been late one night-- of course. It had been a difficult day-- of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system-- of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Errors, Light

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• that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

  Jim Fergus

  Reflection, Thinking, White

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Every man has within himself the entire human condition

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Human Condition, Humans

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• ...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Odds, Vegetables, Victory

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• He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

  Alice Hoffman

  Stupid, People, Flawed

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.158, Broadway Books

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• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Reality, Brain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.49, Google Publishing

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• Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.

  Jamie Ford

  Father, Care, Littles

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.130, Allison & Busby

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• If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Religious, Long, Comforting

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.338, Penguin

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• They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Violence, Quiet, Speak

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.170, Penguin

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• These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, People, Awkward

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