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1 " Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel. "
― Corrie ten Boom , The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
2 " So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. "
― Margaret George , The Memoirs of Cleopatra
3 " In love there are two things - bodies and words. "
4 " There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say " I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say " I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am. "
5 " At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter. "
― Cecelia Ahern
6 " In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. "
― Sei Shōnagon , The Pillow Book
7 " Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. "
― John Newton , Amazing Grace
8 " There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. "
― Robert Louis Stevenson , Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
9 " To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. "
― Leonard Bernstein
10 " When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think. "
― Liezi , Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
11 " I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind. "
― Vera Nazarian , Dreams of the Compass Rose
12 " In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God. "
― Orson Welles
13 " Jealous of the crazy gay kid. That doesn't sound right." " Hey, Sol," she said, her tone getting serious for a second. " Those are two things about you out of a million. Don't box yourself in. "
14 " I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life. "
― Hubert Selby Jr.
15 " I had a dream that I saw shooting stars with you. Two things that will come close to never happening: Seeing shooting stars, and being with you. "
― Crystal Woods , Write like no one is reading 2
16 " When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. "
― Edward Teller
17 " When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly. "
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18 " You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be? "
― Faith Erin Hicks , The Stone Heart (The Nameless City, #2)
19 " If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. "
― Stephen King
20 " If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. "
