First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: 'These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself. The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity, and held safe in an everlasting belief.
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HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell whe... ARLENE J. CHAI I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Your value does not decrease if there is someone’s inability to see your worth. Remind yourself of... 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ANGIE KARAN Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I ... JAMES BALDWIN People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at... RANDY JOHNSON When you are true to yourself, you are completely honest with what you feel, deeply value, and desir... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t ... WILHELM REICH You must have thought more times than you realized "it will hurt". You should know it may... THAIIA SENQUETTA We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce a... JAY WOODMAN When the world tells us that it is impossible and when the world is falling from underneath us, and ... MORDRED Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. SYED SHARUKH You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR To them I'm simply an object from the past that they wish will disappear Then why do I exist? Why am... MASASHI KISHIMOTO To make it quite practical I have a very simple test. After I have explained the way of Christ to so... D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and m... VERA NAZARIAN I'm writing this down, because it is going to be hard for me to say it. Because this is probably our... ANN BRASHARES I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, ar... CEELO GREEN This is a sanctuary to drop all the hard feelings and to get relieved.I feel that I'm living on this... NISHI DE SILVA It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If y... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w... LOUISE ERDRICH As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt... HARUKI MURAKAMI The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth... SHIRLEY JACKSON I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in th... SUZANNE FARRELL Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offerin... 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BARRIE Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. J.M. ROBERTS What I’ve come to realize I that I don’t like action for action’s sake. Mindless explosions, s... J.M. RICHARDS A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You... J.M. DARHOWER His head exploded. I’d never seen someone’s head explode. I never thought I would. Maybe in the ... J.M. SULLIVAN Stacey muttered, "But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want ... J.M. REEP To live will be an awfully big adventure. J.M. BARRIE Shoot the Wendybird! J.M. BARRIE Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like ... J.M. BARRIE Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could... J.M. BARRIE Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the ... J.M. BARRIE Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by;... J.M. BARRIE Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly,... J.M. BARRIE I am the best there ever was! J.M. BARRIE He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. J.M. BARRIE One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he... J.M. BARRIE Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny... J.M. BARRIE But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the c... J.M. BARRIE Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she wa... J.M. BARRIE Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forge... J.M. BARRIE She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till m... J.M. BARRIE Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John... J.M. BARRIE Two is the beginning of the end. J.M. BARRIE Forever is a very long time Peter J.M. BARRIE After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the ... J.M. BARRIE Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one g... J.M. BARRIE When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all... J.M. BARRIE It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the day... J.M. BARRIE Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ev... J.M. BARRIE Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "t... J.M. BARRIE I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be? J.M. BARRIE If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. J.M. BARRIE Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever. J.M. BARRIE Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands! J.M. BARRIE Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forev... J.M. BARRIE I stretched out my arms and laid my palms on the earth, and, yes, the rocking persisted, the rocking... J.M. COETZEE Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a p... J.M. REEP We walked to dinner, ate together, and talked nearly the whole time. I was amazed that I had as much... J.M. RICHARDS Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! How am I deficient? You're just a boy. J.M. BARRIE I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. J.M. BARRIE David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'. J.M. BARRIE I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of othe... J.M. BARRIE Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherw... J.M. COETZEE If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't ma... J.M. BARRIE Yes, you see, there’s no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything tha... J.M. DARHOWER Peter,' she asked, trying to speak firmly, 'what are your exact feelings for me?' Those of a de... J.M. BARRIE (I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retri... J.M. COETZEE All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was... J.M. BARRIE His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of... J.M. COETZEE Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you w... J.M. DARHOWER I'm not young enough to know everything. J.M. BARRIE You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and yo... J.M. DARHOWER I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for. J.M. AUGUST