Quotes - Renee (rannsmith61) (Hudson, NY) Showing 1-30 of 256

#1

“If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#2

“Comfort & peace never come from anything we know about ourselves, but only & always from what we know about Him.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith

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#3

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#4

“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: happiness, narnia

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#5

“It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

tags: beauty-longing

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#6

“Reading is more important to me than eating.”
― John Piper

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#7

“Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.”
― John Piper

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#8

“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”
― John Piper

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#9

“All heroes are shadows of Christ”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

tags: christ, heroes

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#10

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#11

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: honesty

976 likes

#12

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: crying, inspirational, sorrow

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#13

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#14

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#15

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

tags: inspirational

2275 likes

#16

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#17

“Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: wisdom, womens-strength

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#18

“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: lovers

551 likes

#19

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: dream, hope, live

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#20

“Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: flight, philosophical

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#21

“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#22

“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

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#23

“It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

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#24

“You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

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#25

“Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.”
― E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

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#26

“Don't write about Man; write about a man.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: character, the-writing-process

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#27

“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: closing-line

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#28

“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: blind-faith, gullibility, humor, insidious, mass-media, media, media-distortion

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#29