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Life Expectancy QUOTES

Life Expectancy QUOTES

1 " My parents didn't raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength to do the right thing, yes. Not for a winning lottery number, not for love or health, or happiness. Prayer is not a gimme list; God isn't Santa Claus. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

2 " No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

3 " We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

4 " The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

5 " Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

6 " No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

7 " If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

8 " ...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

9 " But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

10 " Insanity is not evil, but all evil is insane. Evil itself is never funny, but insanity sometimes can be. We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil’s power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

11 " As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

12 " When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

13 " for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery, "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

14 " the more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

15 " Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other—and to me. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

16 " When you realize you’re fighting a fundamental law of the universe, it’s best to surrender to nature. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

17 " All our yesterdays neatly shelved, time cataloged in drawers: News grows brittle and yellow under the library, in catacombs of paper. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

18 " ravaged kidney; but, God willing, she would be able to enjoy a full life with the one that remained. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

19 " I believed suddenly not merely in evil as a necessary antagonist in movies and books—bad guys and boogeymen—not merely in evil as the consequence of parental rejection or parental indulgence or social injustice, but in Evil as a presence alive in the world. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy

20 " The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you’re playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does. "

― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy