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“Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.”

Ifs Has Beens Turns Sin Pay Findings Greed Stranger Treasure Thieves Heed

Author:J. K. Rowling

“If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.”

Ifs Feels Stills Hands Findings Empty Disappointment Foolishness Hopelessness Empty Hands

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.”

Ifs Hands Might Moving Universe Left Felt Numbers Steps Findings Fingers Sentences Code Clock Ran Cracks Seconds Counting Like Something Slippery Refrigerators Left Hand

Author:Mary Karr

“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.”

People Ifs World Writing Helping Feelings Secret Written Materials Honor Paper Findings Asking Underestimate Describing

Author:Anne Lamott

“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Matter Struggle Talent Succeed Findings Get Better Have Faith Display Consistently Great Talent

Author:Laura Kasischke

“There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.”

Ifs Knows Feels Trying Mean Children Joy Fall Names Language Parent Grief Wonder Happened Birth Findings Falling In Love Finding God Birth Of A Child

Author:Jodi Picoult

“"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."”

Ifs Knows Said Findings Shame Killing Hunting Referring Hounds

Author:Ray Bradbury

“By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).”

Ifs World Needs Writing Kind Done Chance Tvs Mets Findings Kicks Requirements Chances Are Deodorant

Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.”

Ifs Firsts Self Lost Ability Race Findings Gun Conscience Criticism Starting Critical Passing Passings Winner Gates Defective Finding Myself Criticism Of Others

Book:Teacher Man: A Memoir

Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir

“There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.”

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.”

Ifs Way Art Facts Feelings Remember Fiction Talking Creativity Findings Metaphor Stores New Ways Vocabulary Connecting

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.”

Ifs Persons Said Cases Missing Findings Devil Aliens Grandma Missing A Person

Book:High Five

Source: High Five

“Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the Lord will help us.”

Ifs Believe Helping Opportunity Challenges Lord Taxes Findings

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“When a man likes you, he will be interested in finding out what you like. If he makes you happy, he feels more secure. Everything men do is intended to impress women.”

Ifs Men Feels Findings Likes Secure Impress Make You Happy

Author:Sherry Argov

“First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?”

Source: No Man Is an Island

“This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.”

Ifs Way Principles Source Ambition Findings Democratic Corruption Controlled Inherent Alas Subordinates Legislators

Book:Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State

Source: Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State

“If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?”

Ifs Men Looks Heart Littles Realizing Loses Wealth Loss Forget Comfort Findings Dear Delight Deprived Console Dear Friend Many Friends His Loss

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”

Ifs Want Life Believe Important Strong Stars Sleep Solitude Kissing Findings Train Sticks Instinct Cherish Disagree Far Away Coming Back Fitting Being Afraid

Author:Eve Ensler

“Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.”

“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.”

“It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.”

Ifs World Want Feels Persons Helping Middle This World Safe Mountain Findings Warm Valleys Trustworthy Windy

Author:Daniel Handler

“If you find something precious you have to hold onto it with all your might and never let it go inspite of whatever else you may lose, after all many people die without ever finding that's really precious to them.”

People Ifs May Might Dies Loses Findings Let It Go

Author:Novala Takemoto

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Has Beens Feelings Might Happens Wonder Regret Findings Shoulders Looking Back Ignored Might Have Been Message In A Bottle Letter In A Bottle

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.”

Ifs World Trying May Character Interest Answers Particular Findings Philosophical Philosophical Questions Deep Philosophical

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Stills Able Beautiful Girl Opportunity Growing Fields Findings Plant Things To Do Right Thing Ashes This Girl Plants Growing

Book:The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn

Source: The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn

“I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.”

Ifs Feels Said Found Expression Solitude Findings Oneself Not Sure Spokes Fragile Solitary Lonliness Finding Myself Like Being Alone

Book:Simply Love

Source: Simply Love

“The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.”

Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN

“But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right – somehow? But how? Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?" "To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that." "Oh dear," said Lucy. "But anyone can find out what will happen," said Aslan. "If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me – what will happen? There is only one way of finding out.”

Ifs Knows Way Mean Children Has Beens Said Happens Happened Please Findings Dear Get Up One Way Follow Me Lucy

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian

“There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.”

“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won't let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in this world. If you're lucky enough to find this person, never let them go.”

Source: So Much Closer

“As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.”

Ifs Problem Guy Term Findings Solve Contradiction

Book:How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend

Source: How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend

“She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”

Ifs Knows Long Light Care Lord Darkness Huge Findings Overcoming Weight Shoulders Relief Indescribable

Author:Stephen King

“It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning”

Ifs Life Clear Findings Contrary

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

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