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- We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
- Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
- Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
- Jane Wyman (1914 - )
- The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
- Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
- If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
- Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
- Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
- Barbara Mikkelson, snopes.com, May 15, 2001
- It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
- Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?
- Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
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