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“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Anyway, God is not susceptible to proofs and disproofs. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“Maybe real-life Mom didn't vacuum the house flawlessly arrayed in pearls and a pleated shirt like the mother on leave it to beaver. Maybe she flirted with the milkman or waited for the kids to go to bed so she could hammer back a couple of mugs of vodka pretending it was tea. But she was there to greet us when we came home from school in the afternoon. She made us dinner, kept watch on us through the kitchen window, put Band-Aids on our scrapes and bruises.
She was Mom and that was no small thing.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.”
― Will Schwalbe

“Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment”
― Charles Swindoll

“There is enough time in the day to accomplish everything God wants me to do. If I am harried, it is because I am doing things that God has not asked of me.”
― Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Walking With Purpose: Seven Priorities That Make Life Work

“On the night before Jesus died, he said to his Heavenly Father, "I have accomplished the work which you gave me to do."
He didn't heal every sick person on earth. When he ascended to heaven, there was still sickness and heartache and pain. But Jesus knew that he had accomplished what his father had called him to do, and that was enough.”
― Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Walking With Purpose: Seven Priorities That Make Life Work

“All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.”
― Christopher West

“Know that whatever God prays to
He asked it to help Him make something of worth.
He woke from His dreams scraped the soil form the spaces inside Himself made you and was happy.
You make the Lord happy.”
― Anis Mojgani

“Know that whatever God prays to
He asked it to help Him make something of worth.
He woke from His dreams scraped the soil from the spaces inside Himself made you and was happy.
You make the Lord happy.”
― Anis Mojgani

“I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.”
― Andrea Gibson

“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“The world had no beauty of its own. The beauty of the world was created in the human experience, in me. The very fact of beauty, the very idea that something could be beautiful, only existed in me. The point was not to see the world....The point was to experience the world.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“No man can be everything. A successful long-distance cyclist can't be a bodybuilder. Though there are exceptions, dedicating one's time to becoming exceptional at one thing usually means not being exceptional at a whole lot of other things.
Since no man can be everything, one of the best gifts to give is acceptance-'You don't have to be anything other than what you are.”
― Gary L. Thomas, Cherish: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage

“The glory of God is the perfection of the creature.” There is no better way to honor life and God than to strive to become the - best - version - of - yourself.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

“If you do not, you will not.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose

“Destruction always comes from within. It”
― Matthew Kelly, The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose

“Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left behind still works. And that’s really the horror of it, wouldn’t you say? Yes. The exact horror of it.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“There are places. Abandoned places. Forgotten places. These are the places I like to be.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“Abandoned houses seldom turn out to be as empty as they appear. Voices fade, but echoes linger, intimately, sinking from room to room. And sometimes figures emerge from those shadows, if only in dreams. What could be more profoundly idiosyncratic than our nightmares? Always, there has been something personal about ghost stories. How surprising is it that so many concern writers in torment?”
― Robert Dunbar, Shadows: Supernatural Tales by Masters of Modern Literature

“You were heavily armed with faith, and that made your heart a castle. My heart, by contrast, is an abandoned house whose windows are shattered and doors unhinged. Ghosts play inside it, and the winds wail. As”
― Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A story is a letter the author writes to himself”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”
― Tom Robbins

“We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life and it'll still find us. Death will show up wearing an invisible cloak and it will wave a magic wand and whisk us away when we least expect it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.”
― Kelly Moran, An Insomniac's Dream: A Collection of Poems And Short Stories