There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

About G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.

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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.

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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth.

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Maybe if you thought about them, people never really disappeared. It sounded so corny, but there was a scientific explanation for it, too. If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them. Everything you shared with a person is still there swirling around in the universe.

—Wendy Wunder in The Probability of Miracles

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Anger is like that. Runs on its own fumes, devours itself voraciously, explosively, until one day there is no fire left. Only pure, cold, unbreakable hardness.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

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If I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

—Jennifer Castle in The Beginning of After

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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

—Madeleine L'Engle

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If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

—Steve Backley in The Champion in all of Us

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