Julie Andrews Edwards · 209 pages
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“Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.”
“Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.”
“If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside”
“Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes...”
“Pax amor et lepos in iocando. Latin for Peace, love and sense of fun.”
“If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.”
“Learn to listen when people are talking. First, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say one thing they mean another.”
“Don't you sometimes feel bewildered when you think of the millions of things that put life together?' ... 'I;m not bewildered. I'm filled with the deepest awe and wonder. The miracle is that in its complexity it all works.”
“Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made.”
“There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.”
“She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?”
“People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful.”
“I thought about how in movies, usually action movies, a cheap way of getting the audience to invest in the plot is to endanger the life of a dog. There can be fifty men graphically terminated by machine-gun fire or an entire building full of workers destroyed, but no one will stand for a cute little dog being killed. And almost always, the dog's life is spared to the relief of the audience.”
“.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them”
“She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”
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