Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWe resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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