Margaret Bechard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

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