Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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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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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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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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I cannot live without reading.
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