Dallas Willard Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.
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I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
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I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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Reality is what you can count on.
