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"you Know, I've Wondered If It's More Painful To Lose Someone You Love To Death Or To Lose Someone You Love Because She No Longer Loves You Back." "i Don't Know," I Said. "on The Surface, It Seems An Easy Question. It Should Be So Much Easier To Lose Someone Who Doesn't Love You, Because Why Would You Want To Be With Someone Who Doesn't Want You? But Rejection's Not An East Road. A Part Of You Always Wonders What Makes You So Unlovable."

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"you Know, I've Wondered If It's More Painful To Lose Someone You Love To Death Or To Lose Someone You Love Because She No Longer Loves You Back." "i Don't Know," I Said. "on The Surface, It Seems An Easy Question. It Should Be So Much Easier To Lose Someone Who Doesn't Love You, Because Why Would You Want To Be With Someone Who Doesn't Want You? But Rejection's Not An East Road. A Part Of You Always Wonders What Makes You So Unlovable."

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At One Time In My Career, Barnes And Noble Bookstores Categorized My Books As Religious Fiction.

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. . .and Every Native Has A Story Of Winter – Stories That Usually Begin, You Call This A Storm? And Grow In The Telling Like Battle Tales Shared By Graying War Veterans. It’s A Peculiar Character Flaw To Those Of Us From Cold Climates That We Feel Superior To Those Who Have The Sense To Live Elsewhere.

The Truest Indication Of Gratitude Is To Return What You Are Grateful For.

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But More Than Brave, You Have Love. And Love Is Brave.

Sunsets, Like Childhood, Are Viewed With Wonder Not Just Because They Are Beautiful But Because They Are Fleeting.

Some People In This World Have Stopped Looking For Beauty, Then Wonder Why Their Lives Are So Ugly. Don't Be Like Them. The Ability To Appreciate Beauty Is Of God. Especially In One Another. Look For Beauty In Everyone You Meet, And You'll Find It. Everyone Carries Divinity Within Them. And Everyone We Meet Has Something To Impart.

Appreciate Beauty

Every Life Can Be Learned From, As Either A Flame Of Hope Or A Cautionary Flare.

The Concept Of Spiritual Healing Was Something I Was Raised With.

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There Are None So Impoverished As Those Who Do Not Acknowledge The Abundance Of Their Lives

From Our First Babblings To Our Last Word, We Make But One Statement, And That Is Our Life.

I Am A Believer In Angels, Though Not The Picture-book Kind With Wings And Harps. Such Angelic Accoutrements Seem As Nonsensical To Me As Devils Sporting Horns And Carrying Pitchforks. To Me, Angel Wings Are Merely Symbolic Of Their Role As Divine Messengers.

I Love When I Can Reboot People When They Are Being Mean To Others.

We Can Spend Our Days Bemoaning Our Losses, Or We Can Grow From Them. Ultimately The Choice Is Ours. We Can Be Victims Of Circumstance Or Masters Of Our Own Fate, But Make No Mistake, We Cannot Be Both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

That Which We Expect Of Life Is Indeed All That It Ever Can Be.

Suffering Ceases To Be Suffering When We Form A Clear Picture Of It.

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I Believe That Love Is The Choice We Make To Raise Ourselves And Others To The Highest Planes Of Existence.

I Don't Want To Go To Peru. "how Do You Know? You've Never Been There." I've Never Been To Hell Either And I'm Pretty Sure I Don't Want To Go There.

People Are Like Books, Unknown Until They Are Opened.

I've Wondered Why The Famous Congregate With Each Other. Perhaps It's To Assure Each Other That They Really Are As Important As They Think They Are.

If God Came To Save The World, Why Are So Many Of His Professed Followers Intent On Damning It?

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We Cannot Enslave Others Without Enslaving A Part Of Ourselves.

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I Think The Secret To A Hoppy Life Is A Selective Memory. Remember What You Are Most Grateful For And Quickly Forget What Your Not.

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Things That Seem Bad At The Time Are Really Blessings.

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Heroes Rarely Look The Way We Draw Them In Our Minds: Attractive, Imposing Figures With Rippling Muscles And Strong Chins. More Times Than Not They Are Humble Beings, Small And Flawed. It Is Only Their Spirits That Are Beautiful And Strong.

It's Almost As Difficult To Believe That Someone With So Many Trials Could Harbor Such Hope, As That There Are Those With So Much Advantage Who Harbor Such Hopelessness.

The Further Along We Get On Our Life Journey The More We Wonder About Those Who Traveled Before Us And Paved The Road.

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It Is In The Dark Times That The Light Of Friendship Shines Brightest.

No,' He Said, 'you Only Have To Live Long Enough To Inspire Others To Do Great Things.

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It's Been Said That Every New Beginning In Some Other Beginning's End.

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Life Has Taught Me That To Fly, You Must First Accept The Possibility Of Falling.

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I Suppose I Have An Active Imagination, And Writing Allows Me To Live It Out.

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People Are Looking For Inspiration, And My Books Are Sometimes The Vehicles Of What People Are Looking For.

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The Sin Of The Desert Is Knowing Where The Water Is And Not Sharing It.

Love Never Gives In Or Up, Holding Tight To Lofty Ideals That Transcend This Earth And Time, While Its Counterfeit Simply Concludes It Was Mistaken And Quickly Runs Off To Find The Next Real Thing.

The Thing Is, The Only Real Sign Of Life Is Growth. And Growth Requires Pain. So To Choose Life Is To Accept Pain.

We Are Chained To That Which We Do Not Forgive

It Has Been A Mistake Living My Life In The Past. One Cannot Ride A Horse Backwards And Still Hold Its Reins.

Leah Taught Me That The Greatest Secret Of Life Is That We Find Exactly What We're Looking For. In Spite Of What Happens To Us, Ultimately We Decide Whether Our Lives Are Good Or Bad, Ugly Or Beautiful.

Some People Deal With Their Problems By Talking Them To Death. In Fact, Some Enjoy The Execution So Much They Resurrect Their Problems Just So They Can Kill Them Again.-nathan Hurst

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Maybe, If We Just Accepted Our Deaths, We Might Finally Start To Live.

. . . Harboring An Emotion As Powerful As Gratitude Has Power Of Its Own.

Life Is The Soil, Our Choices And Actions The Sun And Rain, But Our Dreams Are The Seeds.

Joy Isn't The Natural Response To Blessings - Joy Is What Comes From Acknowledging Them.

Commitment To A Plan Or Thought Carries With It A Force That Can Influence The Unconscious Mind And Bring About The Desired Effect. In Other Words, Once We Decide To Have Something, The Mind Unconsciously Begins To Create The Reality Necessary To Bring To Pass What We Desire.

Some Men See Mountains As Obstacles. Others As A Canvas.

The Greatest Shackles We Bear In Thislife Are Those Forged By Our Own Fears

I Am Facing The Most Difficult Thing Of My Life, My Own Greatest Failure.

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We're All Moons. Sometimes Our Dark Sides Overshadow Our Light.

The Smells Of Christmas Are The Smells Of Childhood [p. 53]

There's No Problem So Big That Whining Won't Make It Worse.

We All Arrive On Earth With A Round-trip Ticket.

So Much Of Young Adult Literature Has Turned Dark, Almost Pathological. It's Almost As If There Is A Race To See Who Can Be The Most Dysfunctional.

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I've Never Understood Why People Said 'in Your Own Words.' Who Else's Words Would I Use?

Small Kindnesses Often, Unintentionally, Produce The Biggest Payoffs.

Small Kindnesses

Only Those Who Never Step, Never Stumble.

Sometimes We Can Only Find Ourselves By First Losing Ourselves.

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There Are Moments, It Would Seem, That Were Created In Cosmic Theater Where We Are Given Strange And Fantastic Tests. In These Times, We Do Not Show Who We Are To God, For Surely He Must Already Know, But Rather To Ourselves.

As We Walk Our Individual Life Journeys, We Pick Up Resentments And Hurts, Which Attach Themselves To Our Souls Like Burrs Clinging To A Hiker's Socks. These Stowaways May Seem Insignificant At First, But, Over Time, If We Do Not Occasionally Stop And Shake Them Free, The Accumulation Becomes A Burden To Our Souls.

The More Someone Assures You That Everything Is Okay, The More You Can Be Assured That It's Not.

The Kids Who Speak Well, Are Articulate And Intelligent, Are All Readers.

Life Is Not A Sprint. It Was Never Meant To Be. It Is Just A Step Of Faith After Another.

Forgiveness Is The Key To The Heart's Shackles.

I Have Tourettes Syndrome.

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We Carry Around In Our Heads These Pictures Of What Our Lives Are Supposed To Look Like, Painted By The Brush Of Out Intentions. It's The Great, Deep Secret Of Humanity That In The End None Of Our Lives Look The Way We Thought They Would. As Much As We Wish To Believe Otherwise, Most Of Life Is A Reaction To Circumstances.

The Idea Of Being A Novelist Is Really Romantic, But It's Kind Of The Same As Being President Of The United States - It's Not Gonna Happen.

It Is In The Darkest Skies That Stars Are Best Seen.

The Sweetness Of Reunion Is The Joy Of Heaven.

I Have Learned A Great Truth Of Life. We Do Not Succeed In Spite Of Our Challenges And Difficulties, But Rather, Precisely Because Of Them.

People Aren't Wired To Be Alone. Even In The Stressful Population Of Prison, Solitary Confinement Is Still Considered A Cruel Punishment.

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The First Casualty Of Hitting Rock Bottom Is Vanity.

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In The End, We All Lose It. Remember That. In The End, We Own Nothing.

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People Can Become So Blinded By Their Own Perceived Victimhood That They Make Victims Of Everyone Around Them.

The Most Difficult Of Decisions Are Often Not The Ones In Which We Cannot Determine The Correct Course; Rather The Ones In Which We Are Certain Of The Path But Fear The Journey.

What A Culture We Live In, We Are Swimming In An Ocean Of Information, And Drowning In Ignorance.

I Absolutely Love Playing The Game 'risk.

The Depth Of Love Is Revealed In Its Departure.

Those With The Softest Hearts Build The Hardest Shells.

"wait And See" Is No Easier Now Than It Was As A Child.

I've Yet To Read A Love Story That Compares With Mine.

When We Hate Someone We Make Them More Powerfull Than They Are.

Chocolate Is God's Apology For Brocolli

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Everyone Has Problems. It's How You Choose To Deal With Them. Some People Choose To Be Whiners Some Choose To Be Winners. Some Choose To Be Victims Some Choose To Be Victors.

To Forgive Is To Unlock The Cage Of Another's Folly To Set Ourselves Free.

Nothing Heals The Soul Like Chocolate ... It's God's Apology For Broccoli.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? I Already Have. How Could You? I Don't Deserve It. That's What Makes It Love.

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Love Is Never Convenient-and Rarely Painless

There Can Be No Joy Without Gratitude.

There's A Problem With Marrying Up. You Always Worry That Someday They'll See Through You And Leave. Or, Worse Yet, Someone Better Will Come Along And Take Her. In My Case, It Wasn't Someone. And It Wasn't Something Better.

I Don't Think It Is As Much A Human Foible As It Is A Human Curse That We Cannot Understand The Beauty Of A Thing Until It Is Gone.

...the Measure Of Life Is Revealed In The Quality Of Our Relationships: With God, Our Families, Our Fellow Men." - A Perfect Day By Richard Paul Evans

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Without Great Mountains We Cannot Reach Great Heights.

We Can Only Lose What We Have First Claimed.

When I Think Of God I Feel Like An Ant Crawling Into A Computer.

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Sometimes Our Arms Are So Full With The Burdens We Carry That It Hinders Our View Of The Load Those Around Us Are Staggering Beneath.

Usually Life’s Greatest Gifts Come Wrapped In Adversity.

Mr. Dallstrom Is A Bald, Scarecrow Of A Man With A Poochy Stomache. Think Of A Pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

Books Are The Most Tolerant Of Friends.

If You Passed Me Walking Home From School, You Probably Wouldn't Even Notice Me. That's Because I'm Just A Kid Like You. I Go To School Like You. I Get Bullied Like You. Unlike You, I Live In Idaho. Don't Ask Me What State Idaho Is In––news Flash––idaho Is A State. ~michael Vey

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