"You may find it difficult to believe, but most people live their lives, to a large extent, out of their pseudo selves. It's very likely that you do this, too!"
—Margaret Newman, Stepfamily Realities (1994)

"Romantically, you may be quite surprised when you finally remove your rose-colored glasses."
—Total Horoscopes 2003

"You may find it difficult to believe that you are capable of managing without someone to keep your life together."
—Angela Phillips, Take Charge! (1996)

"You may find it difficult to believe that even a glittering new postwar refrigerator is capable of suggesting that its owner serve the one finest whiskey ever bottled."
—Life (Dec. 31, 1945)

"The embryo is the universe writing itself on its own body." —Richard Grossinger, Dark Pool of Light: The Neuroscience, Evolution, and Ontology of Consciousness

Rumpelstiltskin is an anagram of "Purls silken mitt."

"Some change takes time. Give it the time it needs, and you may be quite surprised—and pleased—with the results."
—Stedman Graham, Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success (2000)

"You may find it difficult to believe that photography is a form of energy reproduction and that every photograph contains energy."
—Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way (2010)

1983's song "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats says "Everybody look at your hands." It's a lucid dreaming technique for dancing one's fantasies clear-headedly.


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"You may be quite surprised to find that what seems like a fair deal on the surface is decidedly unfair when you factor in taxes."
—Esther M. Berger, Money-Smart Divorce (1996)

"Calories, after all, are units of energy, and so are words." —Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size (2007)

"You may find it difficult to believe, but absolutely everyone here is dressed from head to foot in corduroy."
—Frank Key, We Were Puny, They Were Vapid (2009)

"You may be quite surprised by the cacao sauce."
—Le Petit Futé Geneva (2009)

"You may find it difficult to believe that communication without words or sounds is possible."
—Wayne W. Dyer, There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem (2003)

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A row of asterisks is the most elegant way to explain human reproduction.

"In the novels I had read whenever a lovely woman stooped to folly she had a baby.  The cause was put with infinite precaution, sometimes indeed suggested only by a row of asterisks, but the result was inevitable" (W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale).

As Laurence Sterne put it, "A thousand of my father's most subtle sylogisms could not have said more for celibacy" (Tristram Shandy).

"You may find it difficult to believe, but each of us, deep down, has an innate knowledge of our personal needs, physically as well as emotionally."
—Lettie Vantol, Crystals (2007)

The seventh best toilet trivia book: that's how our dictionary of magic words was recently ranked, even though we offer only a single reference to a toilet plunger!

"You may find it difficult to believe that you are dead because you feel very much alive."
—Diane Goble, How to Die Consciously

"You may be quite surprised at how rapidly children grow and require new clothing and astonished at the number of their social activities."
—Therese A. Rando, How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies (1991)

"You may find it hard to believe but I was once like you."
—Polly Teale's dramatization of Jane Eyre (1999)