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“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“...The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn't work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“My mother used to tell me that Heaven never seals off all exits.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.”
― David Baldacci, Simple Truth

“When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.”
― David Baldacci, True Blue

“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”
― David Baldacci, Absolute Power

“I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.”
― Philip Yancey, What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters

“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
― Philip Yancey

“God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

“If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin