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• You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

  Bruce Lee

  Wind, Alive, Force

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

  James A. Baldwin

  Eye, Reality, Long

  "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.

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• ‎Should we do this now?" Pam gave an almost inaudible snort. She was smiling in the glow of the streetlight, suddenly exhilarated. "You waiting for an engraved invite?" Lord save me from sarcastic vampires.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sarcastic, Waiting, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.964, Penguin

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• Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara

  Terry Goodkind

  Mistake, Sith, Defeat

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• Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Strong, Adventure, Blood

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• When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she’s nuts. Nuts, I tell you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Thinking, Nuts

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.155, Delacorte Press

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• Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crazy, Glasses, Rocks

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.

  A. S. Byatt

  Dark, Night, Men

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from May 16, 2011

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• If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

  Frank Herbert

  Focus, Awareness, Force

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.181, Penguin

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• I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Giving, Peaceful

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.159, Tara Publishing

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• I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

  Mac DeMarco

  People, Sense Of Humor, About Yourself

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Stories, Cases

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.315, Random House

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• A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there.

  Mark Hart

  Heart, Broken, Praying

  Mark Hart (2017). “Unleashing the Power of Scripture: A Guide for Catholics”, p.50, The Word Among Us Press

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• How could God invite you to heaven, where the most exciting thing to do all day is gaze upon His glorious face, if you're not in heaven right here on earth when you're alone with Him? Do you think that after you die, suddenly you'll be in heaven and "presto!" all at once you're not going to like worldly things anymore? All of a sudden you'll love more than anything else just to hang out with God, when you couldn't stand being alone with Him even 20 minutes a day?

  Keith Green

  Thinking, Heaven, Earth

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• If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.

  Daniel Craig

  People, Rooms, Cameras

  "Actor Daniel Craig talks Layer Cake and 007!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 11, 2005.

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• Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Impact, Parent

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• You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.

  Dan Heath

  Ideas, Want, New Ideas

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• We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

  Bhagat Singh

  Pain, Struggle, People

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

  Gwen Ifill

  Party, Hands, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Two, Heaven, Doe

  Reinhard Bonnke (2017). “Holy Spirit Are We Flammable or Fireproof?”, p.104, CFAN Publications

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• Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Song, Brother, Struggle

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• Amy bit her lip. "I was so scared, Dan. I couldn't think. She shook her head. "I feel so ashamed of myself. If it wasn't for you, we would have been toast." "Whoa," Dan said. "If you're throwing a pity party for yourself, don't invite me." He poked her. "You were the one who got Jonah to find us. Awesome lung power. I thought you only used that volume to get me out of the bathroom.

  Judy Blundell

  Party, Thinking, Amy

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• If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening".

  Milan Kundera

  Light, Two, Compare

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• I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Believe, Needs

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• Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively sweet. Sometimes it comes with a heavy price. While most people don't invite evil into their lives, the dirty little secret is that an invitation isn't necessary. Locked doors don't matter. Neither do fancy security systems. Evil is kind of amazing when you think about it. She knows how to get inside.

  Gregg Olsen

  Sweet, Dirty, Thinking

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