"Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope."
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"To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual."
"We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way."
"Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?"
"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
"What the hell is that?"I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your fox hat?"I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox."
"Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."
"Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."
"Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive."
"those who have loved are those that have found God"
"All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them."
"Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature."
"Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead."
"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
"The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating."
"There are plastic bags with zippers on them. I've seen them in commercials,"Dragos said to her. He snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. "You put food in them.""Ziploc bags?"she asked in a cautious voice.He pointed at her. "Yes. I want one."
"Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us."
"Prayer also forms a type of nutrition for self confidence and keeps you free from worry. It connects you with the main Source of positive energy (Almighty) and recharges you throughout the day. It elevates your plain of thoughts and indirectly guides you to think fruitful and useful thoughts."
"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."
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