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“People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.”

People Ifs Way Difficult Water Impossible Tree Creating Illusion Roots

Author:James A. Baldwin

“It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)”

Men World Way Wisdom Order Existence Modern Objects Materials Creating Ancient Cosmos Significance Discovering Penetrate Pointless Stand Alone Modern Science Ancient Wisdom

Author:Thomas Merton

“Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.”

Ifs Way Should Wells Inspiration Pride Succeed Creating Blame Schemes Good Way Accusation

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.”

“Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.”

Way Kind Real Care Hurt Wonder Missing Mountain Creating Longing Distance Zone Ache Missing Someone Separating Time Zones Time Apart

Book:Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Source: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.”

Ifs Way Mean Stories Guy Song Creating Singing Illusion Okay Breaths My Way Providing Composing Deep Breath Composure Illusion Of Control

Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.”

Way Want Long Made Church White Perfect Walking Creating Bottom Lips Caught Legs Teeth Sunday Pairs Covered Thank God Shorts Covered Up White Teeth

Book:The Vincent Boys

Source: The Vincent Boys

“As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.”

Way Might Faces Causes Church Creating Responsible Being Responsible

Author:Tony Campolo

“The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?”

People Way Lines Perfect Lovers Waste Creating Bottom Wasting Time Transformed Making Love Mediocre Bottom Line Perfect Love Still Life With Woodpecker Way Of Love Perfect Lover

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Doctor." Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness. "The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us." Chapter 3 pg 50”

Ifs Way Hands Creating Doctors Opposites Knees Chapters Another Way Ankles Gideon Decisiveness Unyielding

Book:The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day

Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day