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“Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”

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Shannon Hale is an American author born on January 26, 1974. She is known for her works in fantasy and young adult literature, which have gained widespread popularity among readers. more

“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”

“Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.”

Crazy Becoming Going Crazy

Book:Just One Wish

Source: Just One Wish

“Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?”

Ifs Want Giving Dream Hate Wish Enemy Dying Giving Up Saving Your Dreams Vengeance Someone You Love Change Of Heart Someone You Hate

Book:Change of Heart: A Novel

Source: Change of Heart: A Novel

“Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.”

“Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.”

Men Inspirational Spiritual Life Is Universe Realizing United Valuable Spiritual Relationship

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

Firsts Eye Loneliness Lonely Christian Inspirational Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Feeling Alone Lonely Feeling Lonely And Alone Alone Lonely Lonely Heart

Book:The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

Source: The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Self Social Creation Duty Claims Independent Privilege Dependent Arrogant Brutes Insperational Self Contained

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.”

People Ifs Giving Littles Enough Found Secret Love You Flower Giving Up Intelligence Nuts Peanuts Communes Fidgeting Never Give Up On Love

Author:George Washington Carver

“Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”

Inspirational Teacher Teaching Students Demonstrating

Author:Paulo Coelho

“She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”

Ifs Looks I Can Kids Realizing Guilt Despite Swings Far Away

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

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