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Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. and the results always illusory.
-Anna Quindlen
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Life Is So Messy That The Temptation

Anna Quindlen
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. and the results always illusory.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. this is an obvious lie. only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... a man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. that is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... we never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.
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Like, in general i think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. i always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that i always want messy things for messy reasons.
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This book was not written because i wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; i wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and temptation was defeated. christ died on the cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.
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Time management tips: the perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. a lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.
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Life is messy. would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. life is messy
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