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• Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Order, Water, Wish

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2011). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.15, Hawthorne Books

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• Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Asking Why, Missing, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Nov 25, 2012

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• Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Doors, Being Thankful, Despair

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• Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don't follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the 'trigger event,' we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice.

  John G. Miller

  Jobs, Stress, Struggle

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• Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

  Wallace Tripp

  Book, Shoes, Feet

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• Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.

  Elizabeth Reyes

  Trying, Irony, Ready

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• All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

  Albie Sachs

  Revolution, Impossible, Inevitable

  Albie Sachs (2011). “The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter”, p.133, Souvenir Press

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• If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

  John Wooden

  Enough, Bigs, Big Things

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• Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Believe, Growth

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• Align with nature... Magic happens

  John Friend

  Magic

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• What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Dark, Media, Civilization

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• People with the best intentions will often give you advice on why you shouldn’t take a risk because of what could happen. While some of what they say may be true, you should never allow them to get their negative anchors into your mind because, like them, you too will begin to sink. Next time this happens, throw them a life-line, and ask them what is good about their situation.

  Bob Proctor

  Anchors, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 17, 2013

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• The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Impossible Things, Silence

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• Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.

  Dustin Poirier

  Stress, Mma, Focus

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• I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk.
  Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Morning, Brother, Smart

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• No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

  Daniel Cormier

  Adversity, People, Goal

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• What happens when it’s 2 a.m. and you’re alone in a hotel room with the devil’s minibar? Minibar – one; Marissa – zero.

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Zero, Devil, Rooms

  "Marissa Jaret Winokur: My Close Encounter with a Minibar" by Marissa Jaret Winokur, people.com. July 6, 2009.

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• Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Bears, Sometimes, Strive

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• Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

  Gary Haugen

  Slavery, Modern, Things Happen

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• I just happen to think people are better off doing something they actually like.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, People, Better Off

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• A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.

  Henry Cavill

  Feelings, Actors, Body

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• I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

  Olivia Wilde

  Fashion, Morning, Should

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Adventures in Beauty". Interview with Taylor Barringer, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

  Michael Fassbender

  Flavor Of The Month, Three, Want

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• I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?

  Drew Barrymore

  Life Is Short, Thinking, People

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• You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

  Josh Brolin

  Revenge, Loss, Winning

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

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