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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

  Don Williams

  Journey, Two, Twists

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• I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  "Core Values: Apple Founder Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbclearn.com. May 25, 2006.

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• The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Memories, Flower

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.

  Joel Osteen

  Worry, One Day, Quitting

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Hope for Today Bible”, p.733, Simon and Schuster

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• It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

  Simone Weil

  Fall, Thinking, Doe

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.15, Routledge

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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

  John Ortberg

  Rags, Dolls, Treasure

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• And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Depression, Sadness

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “LIFE AFTER GOD”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Running, Time

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• For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

  Bram Stoker

  Feelings, Brain, Diaries

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.32, Zillmann Publishing

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• As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.

  John Gardner

  Wall, Struggle, Moving

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• Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Hurt, Issues, People

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  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  Sam Ewing

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

  Robert Jordan

  Memories, Long, Leaving

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

  Melody Beattie

  Thankful, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

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• The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everyting in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Beautiful, Running, Two

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• If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

  Dean Kamen

  Indication, Ifs

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• He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

  Harry Kalas

  Funny, Life, Change

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• It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

  Rachel Carson

  Beauty, Nature, Humility

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• Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Wrecks, May

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 06, 2011

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• When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Facts, March

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• He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, World

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.262, Perfection Learning

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