Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
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It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
Interpretation
Faith is unwavering regardless of personal beliefs; there's a deeper trust at play.
This quote reflects the concept that one's belief or non-belief does not influence the existence of a higher power or the unwavering support that comes from that belief. It suggests that there is an intrinsic value in being believed in, regardless of individual faith or skepticism, and highlights the idea that love and support can transcend personal beliefs.
In practice
A pastor could use this quote during a sermon to emphasize the importance of faith.
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren't fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist and racist presumptions... Well, there just aren't many comfortable ways to take that. And in the face of discomfort comes the mask of defence.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.
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