"I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home."

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Source : Jamie Ford (2009). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel”, p.222, Ballantine Books

Jamie Ford

#Nice Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“...And while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.”
“Everything I do, I try to think, 'Okay, what are the ramifications?' Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing - takes up 50 percent of all pesticide use.”
“I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.”
“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, youâ€™ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, youâ€™ll eat yourself.”
“If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.”
“It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.”
“The questionnaire is a simple first step toward becoming more self-aware.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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