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“What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.”

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Jodi Picoult is an American best-selling author known for her emotionally rich and engaging novels. Her works often revolve around family, legal, and moral dilemmas, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

“In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight.”

Source: The Imagination, and Other Essays

“Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.”

Ifs Mystery Crazy Goes On Bounds Perceive Sooner Or Later

Book:Correction: A Novel

Source: Correction: A Novel

“What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.”

Ifs Way Years Next Names Can Do Walks Walking Woods Eighty Rest Of Your Life Walk In The Woods

Author:Thomas Bernhard

“Better to die than live in sleep.”

Dies Sleep

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.”

Life Inspirational Years Looks Bigs Joy Lying Stars Chance Watches Feet Ambition Hot Tables Coffee Chocolate Sunrise Marshmallow Hot Chocolate Trampolines Small Joys

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”

World Needs Water Nature Natural Air Truth Is Dependent Conservation Natural World Precious Things

Author:David Attenborough

“If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.”

Ifs Men Way Reason Able Form Clear Highest Agree Strive Determine Favors Honestly Ignorant Strife True Friendship Free Man Accommodate Changing Myself

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

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