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“One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.”

Want Life Is Language My Own Practice Grace One Thing Habit Blessing Findings Conscious Defined Live By Deliberate My Own Life Finding Someone

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!”

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Author:Jessica Valenti

“I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.”

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Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.”

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Author:Shakti Gawain

“Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.”

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Author:Hu Shih

“The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.”

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Book:U and I: A True Story

Source: U and I: A True Story

“I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.”

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Book:Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher

Source: Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher

“Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.”

Thinking My Own Interesting My Own Life Neurosis

Author:Lake Bell

“I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.”

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Author:Chris Cooper

“I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.”

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Author:Peter Carey

“A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.”

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Author:Emily Giffin

“My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.”

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Author:Christopher Heyerdahl

“Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.”

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Author:Tony Hillerman

“You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.”

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Author:Chris Klein

“It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.”

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Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.”

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Author:Kiri Te Kanawa