"Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock."

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Source : Andrew Pyper (2013). “Lost Girls: A Novel”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

Andrew Pyper

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“My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.”
“I think every time you coach a certain team, when you leave that franchise, I think you continue to grow. You take a look at the things that you did, the things you wish you had done better. You analyze your strengths and your weaknesses, and then when you move to your next job, you continue to do the same thing.”
“The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.”

Source : "XXVIII : The Inner Light of Torah in the Land of Israel". Translation by Rabbi Bezalel Naor, p. 208,
“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.81, CLC Publications
“When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.”
“I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.”

Source : "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.
“There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.”

Source : Source: www.libertymagazine.org
“My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.”

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