Novelists Quotes - Page 18

• Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Deep Thought, Proud

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• America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Usa, America

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Victim, Treated, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 26, 2012

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• Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

  Tim Tharp

  Life, Time, Drinking

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.18, Penguin

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• Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

  Paulo Coelho

  Future, Procrastination, Enjoy Life

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 25, 2011

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• There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Time, Learning

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 04, 2012

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• An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 28, 2010

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• Work is against human nature.  The proof is that it makes us tired.

  Michel Tournier

  Work, Tired, Human Nature

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• No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.

  Charles L. Grant

  Death, Believe, Live Life

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• If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

  Sylvia Plath

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Use, Philosopher

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 25, 2012

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• We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 28, 2012

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• You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 27, 2011

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• The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Work, Mean

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

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• America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Usa, America

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

  Paulo Coelho

  Success, Caring, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 08, 2014

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• To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'

  Pat Conroy

  Growing Up, Memories, Spring

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• It is your human environment that makes climate

  Mark Twain

  People, Humanity, Climate

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Crazy People, Insane

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• Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Faith, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

  Assia Djebar

  Fear, Writing, Feminist

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• I can be as contrary as I choose.

  Julian Fellowes

  Choices, Contradictory, Contrary

  "Downton Abbey (Episode 2.4)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010-2015.

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