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Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#prayer #story #life

It's not adviseable to always go around doubting others all the time. However, it is logical. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. “It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere… “…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day. ↗

— James A. Owen

#childhood #inspirational #jack #life #peter-pan

Life is a constant process of dying. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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I'm either hopelessly misunderstood or an idiot. ↗

— Raine Maida

#music #life

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. . . . The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#life #meaning #life

One nice thing about heaven is that you can relive all your favorite moments and memories pretty much as many times as you want—sort of like a DVD of your whole life. Pause, rewind, fast-forward, slowwww motion, all day, every day. ↗

— Jess Rothenberg

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‎"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#lonely #life

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

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