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It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers, the despised or frightening or unintelligible other, we will see more and more of the holy, since, without exception, all people are one body: God's. ↗

— Sara Miles

#life

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#imagination

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the cooks are somewhat lacking in imagination. But a woman who came up with a palatable wild dog and rhubarb stew is bound to feel as if her hands are tied here. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#imagination

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starting.”   Siddhrtha Gautama ↗

— Seth Godin

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See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, ↗

— Neal Stephenson

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The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

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She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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I’ve always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got to be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me. ↗

— David Levithan

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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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