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Friends are the family you choose.

-Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life Get This Book

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Perfectly Imperfect We have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake takes the perfect form for the maximum efficiency and effectiveness for its journey. And while the universal force of gravity gives them a shared destination, the expansive space in the air gives each snowflake the opportunity to take their own path. They are on the same journey, but each takes a different path. Along this gravity-driven journey, some snowflakes collide and damage each other, some collide and join together, some are influenced by wind... there are so many transitions and changes that take place along the journey of the snowflake. But, no matter what the transition, the snowflake always finds itself perfectly shaped for its journey. I find parallels in nature to be a beautiful reflection of grand orchestration. One of these parallels is of snowflakes and us. We, too, are all headed in the same direction. We are being driven by a universal force to the same destination. We are all individuals taking different journeys and along our journey, we sometimes bump into each other, we cross paths, we become altered... we take different physical forms. But at all times we too are 100% perfectly imperfect. At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey. I’m not perfect for your journey and you’re not perfect for my journey, but I’m perfect for my journey and you’re perfect for your journey. We’re heading to the same place, we’re taking different routes, but we’re both exactly perfect the way we are. Think of what understanding this great orchestration could mean for relationships. Imagine interacting with others knowing that they too each share this parallel with the snowflake. Like you, they are headed to the same place and no matter what they may appear like to you, they have taken the perfect form for their journey. How strong our relationships would be if we could see and respect that we are all perfectly imperfect for our journey.

-Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free Get This Book

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When people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say it how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

-Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Get This Book

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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

-Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams Get This Book

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Get This Book

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But there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

-Homer, The Iliad Get This Book

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We all make vows

-Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow Get This Book

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A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories plus a few other things equaled god. And by that all they meant was that here were a set of exquisitely powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal that was otherwise inexplicable about the universe. Laws of nature…that apply not just locally, not just in Glasgow, but far beyond: Edinburgh, Moscow…Mars…the center of the Milky Way, and out by the most distant quarters known. That the same laws of physics apply everywhere is quite remarkable. Certainly that represents a power greater than any of us.

-Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God Get This Book

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Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales Get This Book

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In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

-Louis Althusser, Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists & Other Essays Get This Book

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How would your life be different if you approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day you dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.

-Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free Get This Book

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Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.

-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver Get This Book

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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smouldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good.

-Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love Get This Book

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The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

-Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing Get This Book

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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

-Charles Bukowski, War All the Time Get This Book

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I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds"

-Yann Martel, Life of Pi Get This Book