Michael Dirda
Related (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:THE PROPHET OF LIFE We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds. DENIS HACHEY KILROY J. OLDSTER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH C. JOYBELL C. CRAIG GROESCHEL The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c... ANUJ SOMANY IDOWU KOYENIKAN KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of... JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN DEYTH BANGER PATRICK ROTHFUSS PATRICK ROTHFUSS Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...MARYUM AHSAM Tangles of life:
Things are busy, moments are time spent, goals are pathways, experience are shadows... C. ANDREW PATRICK ROTHFUSS HENRY JAMES C. JOYBELL C. Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner. ERBLIN VUKAJ It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ... GARY F EVANS... Thinking about what's beyond thought, is opening up your mind to tap into infinite intelligence desi... JACINTA MPALYENKANA ... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally gras... RENEE CARLINO But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on ju... SOHEIR KHASHOGGI PATRICK ROTHFUSS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA T.S. ELIOT MARGARET ATWOOD Being different is not just a great thing, it is a blessing! SUJISH KANDAMPULLY DIANA WYNNE JONES NEIL GAIMAN PAULO COELHO We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA MIMI NOVIC QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY PATRICK ROTHFUSS JEANETTE CORON Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth... TONY D'SOUZA BUKKYO DENDO KYOKAI GAUTAMA BUDDHA LEWIS CARROLL J.R.R. TOLKIEN CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE When the sun and the moon will be identically seen together,J. SARRAF MARK TWAIN Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts. DAN GROAT
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Guard your thoughts.
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... 
All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulat... 
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The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
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Peace within us starts when we learn to forgive and let go 
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
worry about the future or ... 
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. 
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