#rational

For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. ↗

— Colin Powell

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We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #portobello #spiritual #transformation #witch

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion. ↗

— Julian Short

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