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We like to think we're in control but we never are.Joyce Rachelle
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How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.Joyce Rachelle
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Life did come with a manual.Joyce Rachelle
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Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.Joyce Rachelle
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If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.Joyce Rachelle
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Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.Joyce Rachelle
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Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.Joyce Rachelle
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It's only awkward if it matters.Joyce Rachelle
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You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.Joyce Rachelle
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It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.Joyce Rachelle
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The horizon changes but the sun does not.Joyce Rachelle
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If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.Joyce Rachelle
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Life is a curriculum unique to every student.Joyce Rachelle
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Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.Joyce Rachelle
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Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.Joyce Rachelle
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Nobody ever goes before their time.Joyce Rachelle
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Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.Joyce Rachelle
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There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.Joyce Rachelle
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One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.Joyce Rachelle
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Most often when I stammer That's my brain Correcting my grammer.Joyce Rachelle
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She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.Joyce Rachelle
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I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.Joyce Rachelle
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Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.Joyce Rachelle
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Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.Joyce Rachelle
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Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.Joyce Rachelle
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When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.Joyce Rachelle
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Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.Joyce Rachelle
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Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.Joyce Rachelle
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If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.Joyce Rachelle
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Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.Joyce Rachelle
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Not all friends know they have lost you.Joyce Rachelle
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Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.Joyce Rachelle
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If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.Joyce Rachelle
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Yes you have returned And things are as they were But this you cannot hide, A part of you has died.Joyce Rachelle
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You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.Joyce Rachelle
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When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.Joyce Rachelle
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If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.Joyce Rachelle
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But men are bound to say Some things that, though untrue, Will get you down the aisle Until you say "I do.Joyce Rachelle
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If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see, Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.Joyce Rachelle
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It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.Joyce Rachelle
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I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.Joyce Rachelle
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They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.Joyce Rachelle
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I am bothered by poems I don't understand.Joyce Rachelle
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If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.Joyce Rachelle
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When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.Joyce Rachelle
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Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.Joyce Rachelle
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Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"" My favorite character died.Joyce Rachelle
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The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.Joyce Rachelle
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For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.Joyce Rachelle
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If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.Joyce Rachelle
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Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.Joyce Rachelle
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Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.Joyce Rachelle
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There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.Joyce Rachelle
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I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.Joyce Rachelle
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There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it’s because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems.Joyce Rachelle
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Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.Joyce Rachelle
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Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.Joyce Rachelle
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If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?Joyce Rachelle
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There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.Joyce Rachelle
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Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.Joyce Rachelle
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What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.Joyce Rachelle
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I had no money to start, For Jack decreed in his pride: The Caveman's wife didn't work - It was his job to provide. A brief reminder right here: Let men believe they are shrewd, But even women of old Embroidered mittens for food.Joyce Rachelle
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How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?Joyce Rachelle
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There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.Joyce Rachelle
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Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.Joyce Rachelle
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She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.Joyce Rachelle
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One mistake is all they see.Joyce Rachelle
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Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.Joyce Rachelle
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Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.Joyce Rachelle
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As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.Joyce Rachelle
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There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.Joyce Rachelle
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Dear World, I exist. Deal with it.Joyce Rachelle
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Dear Teenage Self, That guy you're crazy about, Will ask you out On a date In about ten years, so don't fret You'll get there yet. But fate is cruel On that day, That feeling will have gone away.Joyce Rachelle
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There is more to hear in what is not said.Joyce Rachelle
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Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.Joyce Rachelle
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And with the Savior's passing came Satan's sure defeat Christ whispered, "It is finished, " for payment was complete. I could not earn salvation, it's been dispensed for free And mercy's gates would open, as He has died for me.Joyce Rachelle
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Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.Joyce Rachelle
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Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?Joyce Rachelle
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If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.Joyce Rachelle
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Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?Joyce Rachelle
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But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass: When one appointed season Christ came to die at last. And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief, But willing was the victim of human disbelief.Joyce Rachelle
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Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.Joyce Rachelle
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She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.Joyce Rachelle
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Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.Joyce Rachelle
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Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.Joyce Rachelle
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Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.Joyce Rachelle
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True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.Joyce Rachelle
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It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.Joyce Rachelle
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Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.Joyce Rachelle
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Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.Joyce Rachelle
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Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.Joyce Rachelle
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You won't stress over it unless you care.Joyce Rachelle
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I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.Joyce Rachelle
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Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.Joyce Rachelle
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Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.Joyce Rachelle
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Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.Joyce Rachelle
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May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.Joyce Rachelle
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It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'.Joyce Rachelle
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It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal.Joyce Rachelle
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For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin, An animal was murdered for garments made of skin. When figs of human effort produced religious strife, The Father tailored clothing for Adam and his wife.Joyce Rachelle