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“God, I give to You all that I am and all that I will be for Your healing and direction. Make new this day as I release all my worries and fears, knowing that You are by my side. Please help me to open myself to Your love, to allow Your love to heal my wounds, and to allow Your love to flow through me and from me to those around me. May Your will be done this day and always. Amen”
― CoDA, CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS

“I’ve heard men complain of doing woman’s work, and women complain of doing man’s work,” she added, fastening her bony thumb and forefinger on Gurgi’s ear and marching him to a stool beside Taran, “but I’ve never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“Stale water is a poor drink,” said Annlaw. “Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.”
― jack vance

“When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Definitive Collection

“A spiritual experience, I think, is what God does for a man when the man is completely helpless to do it for himself. A spiritual awakening is what a man does through his willingness to have his life transformed by following a proven program of spiritual growth, and this is a never-ending venture.”
― Aa World Services, Came to Believe

“Of course, everyone’s parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Most people do not notice other people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbott and Costello meet the Wolfman….”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it’s true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It’s not even coincidence. It’s just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Anyone who calls you ‘little lady’ has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“He sang of names and words, of the building blocks beneath the real, the worlds that make worlds, the truths beneath the way things are; he sang of appropriate ends and just conclusions for those who would have hurt him and his. He sang the world. It was a good song, and it was his song. Sometimes it had words, and sometimes it didn’t have any words at all.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of afterthought—”
― Jack Vance, The Jack Vance Treasury

“Although a moral inventory and a daily inventory reveal myriads of flaws in our makeups, still we, as human beings, cannot unravel all our liabilities in the personality. So at night, when I offer thanks to Him for the day’s sobriety, I add a prayer: I ask Him to forgive my failings during the day, to help me to improve, and to grant me the wisdom to discover those faults in myself which I cannot lay my finger on. In short, the need for prayer is infinite! Karachi, Pakistan”
― Aa World Services, Came to Believe

“It is wise to pray for the future, but not to worry about it, because we can’t live it until it becomes the present The depth of our anxiety measures the distance we are from God.”
― Aa World Services, Came to Believe

“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I believe I was unwanted from birth. Being unwanted, from my experience and from what I have read, leaves me with lifelong self-esteem issues. These issues are like chronic heart problems; with good practice they are minimized, but they never go away.”
― CoDA, CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS

“Becoming accountable to our Higher Power, to ourselves and another person for our feelings, behaviors and addictions is imperative to our recovery. Without accountability, our spiritual program is incomplete, and we continue to play God or give others that role.”
― CoDA, CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS

“I had to let go of the past and forget the future. As long as I held on to the past with one hand and grabbed at the future with the other hand, I had nothing to hold on to today with. So I had to begin here, now.”
― A.A. World Services, Came to Believe

“There are those,” he said gently, “who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“In my view, some of the evidences of a spiritual awakening are: maturity; an end to habitual hatred; the ability to love and to be loved in return; the ability to believe, even without understanding, that Something lets the sun rise in the morning and set at night, makes the leaves come out in the spring and drop off in the fall, and gives the birds song.”
― A.A. World Services, Came to Believe

“man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once,” he added, “you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“The sheath of a seed must be broken to open it to the nurture of the good earth and the warm sun; so I must lose my old self to grow into another, must die in a former life for a renaissance to a new future.”
― A.A. World Services, Came to Believe

“That is the trouble with a clear mind. For a little while you see things as they really are and you can accurately predict how they're going to shape the future ... and then suddenly you realize you've predicted yourself a week or a month into the future and you can't live the intervening time any more because you've already imagined it in detail.”
― Fritz Leiber, The Night of the Long Knives and Other Works

“If guilt's a luxury, then I'm a plutocrat.”
― Fritz Leiber, The Night of the Long Knives and Other Works

“The wild hetman stood like a statue for a space, dimly grasping something of the cosmic tragedy of the fitful ephemera called mankind and the hooded shapes of darkness which prey upon it.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Definitive Collection

“If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous

“the Hyde School’s message to students is: - that they have an important purpose on this earth and the unique potential to fulfill it. - that their true worth is measured not by their social status, intellect, or talents, but by the strength of their character. - that we admire their attitude and effort, and care less about their actual achievements, because these will come with time if they develop character traits like those emblazoned on the Hyde School shield: Courage, Integrity, Concern, Curiosity, and Leadership.”
― Lisa Delpit, Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition

“I do not demand, as one white academic said, that children of color give up what they are to become something else. Nor do I, as he continued, “reject the concept that liberation for poor kids and linguistic minorities starts with accepting their culture and language and helping them to build on it.” Indeed, that is what I do advocate.”
― Lisa Delpit, Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom