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One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.

Yann Martel

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Inspirational Life Principles
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Journey Saving Suffering
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Beautiful Mosques Sunday
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring

One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.

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One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.

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