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Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

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Jan Karon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
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Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
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Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.
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Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
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For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.
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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
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Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.
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I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
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One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.
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Are you reading your Bible? Ah, well...I was. And then you quit. You got it. Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.
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The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
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I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
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I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough
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I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
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When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
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...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.
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