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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Favorite Quotes -- Day 2

Quotes. How long do you have? Well anyway, here are (ahem) a few --

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. --Stephen King

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. -- Clint Eastwood

That's the thing about books. They're alive on their own terms. Reading is like traveling with an argumentative, unpredictable good friend. It's an endless open exchange. -- Ali Smith

What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God -- Micah 6:8

See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of the Father in heaven -- Matt. 18:10



She had a picture of the way things should pleasantly be, and she edited reality heavily to make it so. -- Laurie Colwin

You can never get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough to suit me. -- C.S. Lewis

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Sometimes when you're down in the dark, you lose the will to come up. -- Sue Grafton

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. -- C. S. Lewis

There comes a moment in the life of every individual when reality must be faced. When this happens, it is as though some link between emotion and reason is stretched to the limit of endurance, and sometimes snaps. --Daphne du Maurier

From the time we wake up in the morning to the time to go to bed we look out on a world that is flat, open to interpretation, and sort of like a Rorschach blot. Mark Twain once quipped that "Life is one damn thing after another." Our days are like that. Something happens, then something else happens. A string of events until we fall back asleep. -- Richard Beck (Experimental Theology)




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6 comments:

  1. I love your collection of quotes.

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  2. My favorite out of these is "You can never get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough to suit me". That's how I feel on a daily basis, LOL.

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  3. No better quotes than those from the Bible! Great quotes

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  4. Your blog background is so pretty! And I have to say I was relieved to see that you have a whole list of quotes. I do too, but after reading Tiffany's post and the first link, I was starting to wonder if I'd gone overboard. Hooray! We're overboard together. lol :-)

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  5. Those are awesome quotes. I love CS Lewis and used one of his quotes as well! I love the one by Ali Smith!

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  6. Love the first one! I also really like the one about editing reality, I think I do that quite a bit, lol.

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