"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning."

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Peter De Vries

#Life Quotes #Morning Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.”
“The people that have looked out for me and helped to steer me in the right direction, I just can't thank them enough. So, the drive, a lot of times it just comes down to looking around at the people who love and believe in you and realizing that you owe it to them. Even if I have a bad attitude on a certain occasion, I owe it to all these people around me to just come out and drive, push, and try to make this thing the best that I can”
“I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams”
“When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.”
“The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.”
“I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don't believe there's a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.”

Source : "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview With Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.
“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.”
“I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.”

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