Sydney Banks Quotes

#1. I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#2. All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought

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#3. As he watched his father, Tengo started to have doubts about the difference between a person being alive and being dead. Maybe there really wasn't much of a difference to begin with, he though, maybe we just decided, for convenience's sake, to insist on a difference.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you via Thought

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#5. Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.

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#6. Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.

Christine Feehan

#7. If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

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#8. Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

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#9. From a recording: "If you're listening to this in your car and you find yourself in a beautiful feeling, roll down your window, pop the tape out of the tape player, and throw it out the window. Stay with the feeling, and it will teach you everything you need to know.

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#10. Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

Edith Wharton

#11. When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#12. Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

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