He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
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Jodi Picoult
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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Alan Bennett
There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to...
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Elizabeth Scott
It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls...
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Shannon L. Alder
There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: there are no rules. Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually...
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Shonda Rhimes
More Quotes By Richard Rohr
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without...
...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.
