When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you … - Susan Meissner

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Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

Susan Meissner

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

Chosen, Done, Expected, Learn

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Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

Blue, Children, Everything, Like, Sky, Understood

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

Breathe, Person, Realizing, Thinking, Thinks

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

Looked, Moved, Pages, Rooms, Time, Wordlessly

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

Eloquent, People, Prayer, Soul, Tears

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

Believe, Empowering, Being True, Experience, Empowers

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

Father, Friendship, Hate, Likely, Love, Loved

Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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Neil Young

The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

Artist, Describable, Kind, Responsibility, Seen, Thinking

Terry Pratchett

Burnt, Grease, Running, Successful, Years

Henry Ward Beecher

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

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