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You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
From Odd Thomas
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Topic: Hope
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
From A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
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Topic: Relationships
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
From Dead and Alive
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Topic: Happiness
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
From Dead and Alive
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Topic: Hope
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
From Innocence
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Topic: Life
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
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Topic: Motivational
Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.
From Winter Moon
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Topic: Hope
She reads aloud from Eliot—“‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing’”—and then she closes the book and sets it aside.
From The House at the End of the World
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Topic: Hope
Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
From Chase
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Topic: Death
Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals.
From Deeply Odd
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Topic: Television
Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.
From Intensity
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Topic: Hope
There is strength in solidarity, but also in suffering and in struggle and in hope.
From The Forest of Lost Souls
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Topic: Hope
the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.
From What the Night Knows
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Topic: Religion
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
From Life Expectancy
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Topic: Happiness
Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light. I watch the dark fade, and say to myself, “Okay, I’m still here,” and the more sunrises I see, the more I feel as if I’ll live to see another twenty thousand.
From The Other Emily
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Topic: Hope
Could-do only matters if it's also want-to-do.
From Ashley Bell
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Topic: Motivational
For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...
It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.
From The Darkest Evening of the Year
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Topic: Hope
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
From The Husband
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Topic: Death
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
From Odd Thomas
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Topic: Philosophical
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
From A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
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Topic: Death
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
From Fear Nothing
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Topic: Death
That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.
From Winter Moon
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Topic: Death
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.
From The Darkest Evening of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I didn't tell her that death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
From Odd Thomas
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
From A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
From Dead and Alive
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
From Dead and Alive
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
From Innocence
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Motivational
Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.
From Winter Moon
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
She reads aloud from Eliot—“‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing’”—and then she closes the book and sets it aside.
From The House at the End of the World
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
From Chase
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals.
From Deeply Odd
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Television
Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.
From Intensity
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
There is strength in solidarity, but also in suffering and in struggle and in hope.
From The Forest of Lost Souls
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.
From What the Night Knows
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
From Life Expectancy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light. I watch the dark fade, and say to myself, “Okay, I’m still here,” and the more sunrises I see, the more I feel as if I’ll live to see another twenty thousand.
From The Other Emily
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Could-do only matters if it's also want-to-do.
From Ashley Bell
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Motivational
For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...
It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.
From The Darkest Evening of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
From The Husband
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
From Odd Thomas
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
From A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
From Fear Nothing
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.
From Winter Moon
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.
From The Darkest Evening of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I didn't tell her that death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
From Odd Thomas
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
From A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
From Dead and Alive
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
From Dead and Alive
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
From Innocence
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Motivational
Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.
From Winter Moon
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
She reads aloud from Eliot—“‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing’”—and then she closes the book and sets it aside.
From The House at the End of the World
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
From Chase
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals.
From Deeply Odd
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Television
Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.
From Intensity
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
There is strength in solidarity, but also in suffering and in struggle and in hope.
From The Forest of Lost Souls
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.
From What the Night Knows
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
From Life Expectancy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light. I watch the dark fade, and say to myself, “Okay, I’m still here,” and the more sunrises I see, the more I feel as if I’ll live to see another twenty thousand.
From The Other Emily
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Could-do only matters if it's also want-to-do.
From Ashley Bell
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Motivational
For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...
It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.
From The Darkest Evening of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
From The Husband
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
From Odd Thomas
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
From A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
From Fear Nothing
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.
From Winter Moon
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.
From The Darkest Evening of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I didn't tell her that death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death