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That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn't match reality.

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.
– Stefanos Livos

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  3. That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery. – Stefanos Livos
  4. Somebody told me I’m a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it. – Stefanos Livos
  5. I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want. – Augustine of Hippo
  6. We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear -œstaying stuck.- We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying. – Susan Jeffers
  7. Don’t follow your heart as it can lead you astray, but instead, open your heart and allow God to lead you. – Pauline Seaport
  8. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. – Oscar Wilde
  9. If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  10. Remember that your Heart-”your Truth-”will never lead you astray. Let the Light of your Heart guide your way. – Valerie Rickel
  11. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. – Aldous Huxley
  12. I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. – Eugene V Debs
  13. We know how to lead projects, but we forget how to lead people, because we forgot how to lead ourselves. – Alin Sav
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  17. Unfortunately, we spend more time teaching our daughters how to avoid becoming rape victims than teaching our sons not to become rapists. – Amir Clayton Powell
  18. Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  19. Teaching:One hour’s teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.Saying of the Prophet – Idries Shah
  20. I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching. – Frank McCourt
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  22. Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me. – Gautama Buddha
  23. This twisted cat and mouse game always starts the sameFirst we’re both down to play and somehow you go astray – Iggy Azalea
  24. The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life. – Anup Kochhar
  25. This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality. – Leila Sales
  26. Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies. – Pamela Cummins
  27. It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn’t match the reality. – Taylor Swift
  28. [T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes. – Christopher Hitchens
  29. That’s the thing with reality, he said, you can’t repeat it to order, you can’t correct it. Perhaps we should read more books. – Peter Stamm
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  31. We often go astray, seeking our own way, until the the sacred moment of suffering, then we find grace to cry out for Saviour. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  32. I have gone astray many times, but Now, what matters is the mercy of God’s grace that guides me in the right path. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  33. I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray. – Dominic Riccitello
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  35. Beyond the edge of universe,there’s a kind of real darkness…where even the light gone astray. – Toba Beta
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  37. Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray! – Lindiwe Mabuza
  38. A sheep without a shepherd, go astray. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  39. There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self. – Lionel Suggs
  40. If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. – Dante Alighieri

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