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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
When you're looking for a needle in a haystack, don't afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through ...
I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an ...
The boy who had scolded her was Dirk Eberwein, the first non-Genestella in the history of the Le Wolfe Black Institute to reach the rank ...
Dying isn't so bad after you've done it once. . .
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how ...
What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual ...
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I had wanted all of her just a moment ago, to consume her and to have her consume me in turn, and when we were ...
An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.
The woman from Room 217 was there, as he had known she would be.
Don't be too obvious about it.
Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his ...
In Sweden, self-sufficiency and autonomy is all; [interpersonal] debt of any kind, be it emotional, a favor, or cash, is to be avoided at all ...
I just love bright red drinks!
Once I've met someone, the years cannot erase, the memory of a pleasant word or a friendly face.
There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.
Still, the best augurs are those who divine from the portents of the past. They compile phenomenal records.
And what the fuck were you doing parading around in those jeans and that shirt last - ""Parading?""You are not allowed to put on your ...
I try not to walk out of the room too fast. When the dormitory door closes behind me, I touch a hand to my forehead ...
The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.
[...] the primal, animal sense of 'the other,' which may have evolved for the detection of threat, can take on a lofty, even transcendent function ...
What a wonderful time for women on television.
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ...
Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.
My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.
To acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it."Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order
Once archaeologists have shown possible 'new' ancient features, they can import the data into their iPads and take it to the field to do survey ...
A fact that people who easily and frequently blush, are likely to be great lovers.
If you are determined nothing can stop you from determining your dreams.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
This was thing about temptations. God didn't take them away. They were there - powerful and still needing to be dealt with. If you gave ...
Woman's shape under her midnight blue cloak. The cloak had made her invisible in the darkness, but up close he saw that she had golden ...
We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware ...
We take Jesus' actions, mix them with our assumptions, and produce advice for life that reflects more our opinions than his intentions.
The unguarded, naked truth is however this: This world was never good.
When I see them knit,' Terry said, 'I can almost call them feminine.''That doesn't prove anything,' Jeff promptly replied. 'Scotch shepherds knit always knitting.
It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour: it was her ...
Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.
I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.
A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who ...
I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So ...
Effectively clear communication is crucial to a transformational leadership while poor communication is its biggest enemy.
A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be ...
I walked toward the bar where The Reader sat turning pages, a cup of coffee at his elbow. His sleeves were rolled up, revealing thick ...
But Granny was the sort of person you brought with you when you went to war, and that was what Elsa loved about her.
Twitter proved without a shadow of a doubt it is much more than a social network, but a user-defined infrastructure that can be harnessed to ...
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile ...
A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances.
I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.
What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other ...
Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me ...
If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.
I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.
Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill?
Implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein ...
This is a labyrinth of wickedness and destruction and pleasure and, above all, love, because in the end it's all just one big, mind-bending love ...
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then ...
I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and ...
My face is a mask. I hide my thoughts. My words are calculated to please, charm, or undermine. I can sound smarter or dumber, depending ...
A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why ...
I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
Is this irony, hypocrisy, or a contradiction? I'm never sure which term is appropriate." "Call it all three if you want," Andreas said. "Chutzpah. That's ...
The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.
No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.
You are nuttier than a fruitcake, that's what you are!
There's adventure in the air ... and cake to be eaten.
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, ...
My parents could not be more Italian.
The waking world isn't outside and separate from our mind. It's brought forth and enacted through our imaginative perception of it.
There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there ...
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes ...
I think I have had so many amazing moments in my life.
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then ...
The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.
You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.
This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children ...
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like ...
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.
I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.
I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself.Maybe that was what happened when you faced ...
There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.
Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. ...