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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
— Margaret Atwood
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first in your head, and then you make it real.
— Margaret Atwood
What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
— Margaret Atwood
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
— Margaret Atwood
Then I remembered something I'd seen and hadn't noticed, at the time. It wasn't the army. It was some other army.
— Margaret Atwood
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
— Earl Nightingale
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
— WP Kinsella
Yes, in the sense that I felt a certain contentment. Not always, mind you. I moaned and groaned from time to time. But I was never downright depressed again, probably because I realized that sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy.
— Anne Frank
I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
— Anne Lamott
It's often at our most broken that we realize how loved we really are.
— Sheila Walsh
My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you" (Job 42:5).
— Sheila Walsh
I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet
— Francine Rivers