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“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A book is from your heart and mind, it is your love put to words.”
― Michael Anthony

“Awareness Increases Success”
― Michael Anthony, The Mental Keys For Success In Sales

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
― Henry Adams

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
― Frank Peretti

“That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” —Charlie Chaplin”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.” Amateurs know that contributing something is better”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Amateurs might lack formal training, but they’re all lifelong learners, and they make a point of learning in the open, so that others can learn from their failures and successes.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it. This is the picture of the very first sin in Genesis 3. Even if God has said not to eat from the tree of knowledge, we are going to do it anyway. We spurn our Creator’s authority over us. God beckons storm clouds, and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, “You go there,” and he says to the seas, “You stop here,” and they do it. Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator… until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, “No.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream