"She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next."

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Source : Beverly Cleary (2014). “Ramona 3-Book Collection: Ramona the Pest, Beezus and Ramona, Ramona the Brave”, p.6, Harper Collins

Beverly Cleary

#Girl Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”
“At the beginning of the struggle the holy commandments of God must be fulfilled with a certain forcefulness of will (cf. Mt. 11:12); then the Lord, seeing our intention and labour, will grant us readiness of will and gladness in obeying His purposes. For 'it is the Lord who makes ready the will' (Prov. 8:35 LXX), so that we always do what is right joyfully. Then shall we truly feel that 'it is God who energizes in you both the willing and the doing of His purpose' (Phil. 2:13).”
“Love the people you think you'd want to be with in the hereafter.”

Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Feb 12, 2013
“The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.”

Source : Anatol Rapoport, Albert M. Chammah (1965). “Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation”, p.150, University of Michigan Press
“Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.”
“Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians”
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
“Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.”

Source : "Swimming Home by Deborah Levy - review" by John Self, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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