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The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.
It is not a conspiracy, don't call it a conspiracy. It is all out in the open and it stands on the ignorance, apathy and ...
Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to ...
Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts ...
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
During this time, Ainsworth met Charles Dickens and introduced the young writer to the publisher Macrone and to George Cruikshank. Ainsworth also introduced Dickens to
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know ...
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.
You don't get your prebaby body back, ever, because you cannot go back to being a person who hasn't had a baby. Because you had ...
My three C's of writing: chocolate, cat and computer. Check, check and check.
I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.
It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book ...
Brevity takes time.
Poor people knew how to party. The
But when the world and all that's behind it and in it seem black, I tell myself that self-respect and self-mastery are not everything, that ...
A Great Teacher is like a fountain; she draws from the still, deep waters of personal growth and professional knowledge to serve others from her ...
When we push life, life pushes back. When we let go, things begin to flow ... direction unknown though !
All power is hidden in Humility
God is gracious to some very peculiar people.
Removing stress enhances health.
A famous quote by Nietzsche, "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.
For most, reconciliation will not happen as a part of a normal course of events. It has to be intentional.
All things, my son, transmuteinto old age, life diminishes,everything declines,the proliferation/ of kinds is a mereillusion, and no oneknows to what end.
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Of this trinity of classic heroes - Ulysses, Aeneas, and Achilles - Ulysses is the least obnoxious.
The mystic possesses his or her knowledge of God not from books or academic study, but from experience, from the experience of being loved intimately, ...
Globalization has not only lost its promise but is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in ...
Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. - Bell Hooks
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.
Easy," came a whisper. "Watch the wheel. I'm all right.
By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness ...
People tell me I'm funny. I say looks aren't everything.
It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at ...
Give and you shall receive' is not sentimental idealism, it is a simple, practical rule. That which we can and must give to the land ...
One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that ...
Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh ... was never intended for human beings, who are naturally ...
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.
Life is the soul's nursery.
Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know.
We Stoners must be peaceful, unarmed, and open to nonviolence. It's up to us to be the example of how peace is possible. Work for ...
Don't do anything for pleasure that you don't enjoy.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, ...
A good lather is half the shave.
Just when we had a plan, we had to leave to be safe. Hopefully,
What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers ...
In a flashback, we hear Holly's mother summing up her life in a conversation with her husband, Wylie: "My life is one big mistake," she ...