The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.
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Turcois Ominek
Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already...
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A.W. Tozer
But “almost done” is not done!
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Israelmore Ayivor
Listen to the sadness, the echoes in my mind, the place where I usually hide, but now I cannot find. Why had it happened? What had I done? Where was I going? Now I'm on the run. Hiding from the echoes, the pounding in my...
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Anthony T. Hincks
Here's how man thinks: "If no one’s done it, why should I try? It’s a waste of time; but if he’s done it, I can do it better.
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Nabil N. Jamal
More Quotes By Tracy Kidder
He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.
Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon.
... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.
