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Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in ...

Hmmm ... I think I'd like to be a stay-at-home mom with no kids.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that ...

I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good ...

No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a ...

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges ...

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

It was amazing to see that all people needed to make them happy was food and drink and other people.

When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on ...

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any ...

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. ...

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, ...

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice ...

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.

Nature isn't outside us; it moves in, around, and through us. If you align yourself with the movement of creation, you will experience flow and ...

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd ...

The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.

Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the ...

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to ...

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's ...

A real girl isnt perfect a perfect girl isnt real

Life is more interesting when you colour outside the lines

Your real self always attracts your real enemies and shows your real companions.

We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here ...

Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.

Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you ...

The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How you prioritize your ...

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act ...

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character.

Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about ...

With you, I want it all. If I get a taste of what it could be, I won't ever want to let it go. I ...

The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a ...

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make ...

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two ...

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) ...

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

Aspire to Inspire before you Expire!

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, ...

I was born with a mission and definite purpose and I must achieve my goal and fulfill my destiny on the planet earth

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and ...

The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow ...

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a ...

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result ...

My only sketch, profile of heaven, is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in Juneand in it are my ...

It's not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP ... Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.Leaving the world of reality behind ...

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative ...

Like a force of natureLove can fade with the stars at dawn.

My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I always want to be comfortable in ...

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument ...

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting ...

When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially ...

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there ...

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and ...

And all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God ...

If you try to send a clear signal to and call your SoulMate into your life, having unfinished business with your ex is like static ...

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow's yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this.

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want ...

I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you ...

( ... )I don't know who I am. I look like Stephen Herondale, and I act like a Lightwood and I talk like my father- ...

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, ...

Applause is the most powerful thing ... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.

No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.

Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm.

LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of ...

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing ...

One thing concerns me a little, nick has a girlfriend, right? Well, how do you think she'll feel about all of this? He probed. He ...

And I couldn't catch my breath, and my lungs were acting desperate, gasping, pulling me out of the bed trying to find a position that ...

The Good Friday Agreement was an incredible breakthrough. But it's my view that the Hillsborough Agreement could see politics in the north come of age, ...

Paradoxically, a saint like [Albert] Schweitzer can give one a lot more trouble than King Leopold II, villain of unmitigated guilt, because along with doing ...

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow ...

Could Vader actually be Anakin Skywalker? the two men wondered. Based on Obi-Wan's account of what had occurred on Mustafar, Anakin's survival didn't seem possible. ...

Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the ...

I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the ...

Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on ...

The strongest man is the one who, when he gets angry and his face reddens and his hackles rise, is able to defeat his anger.(Reported ...

And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts ...

So, that's what I'm doing until I meet a friend here. I was hoping that the kid who told the truth could become a friend ...

A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, ...

We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance ofreal story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life ...

People are becoming more environmentally aware and caring more for animals and really wanting to improve their health.