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Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in ...
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.from poem In a Quiet Place on ...
When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to ...
Patience is a virtue,Virtue is a grace.Grace is a little girlWho would not wash her face.
So," Asa said conversationally, "want to go home and play butterflies?" Sebastian grimaced. "Do you promise not to pull my wings off?" Asa looked at ...
I listen to all of my Dutch happy-hardcore songs from my raving techno days when I was about 14. It's the most horrible music ever. ...
Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains
Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; ...
Her sickness came from the water," the nurse explained. "She should drink only good clean water. If the water is dirty, you should boil it ...
He carries stars in his pocketsbecause he knowsshe fears the dark.Whenever sadness pays her a visithe paints galaxieson the back of her hands.
It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot ...
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than ...
The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to ...
I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I like the exercise ...
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary ...
Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your ...
I love getting older!
Sometimes you grow out of love.
Surfing, writing, composing, and programming deep into the night, like it's the early 1980s with the hue of poison-green CRT illuminating the room, Nike running ...
There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to articulate the unspeakable ...
There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and all that. Without ...
Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, ...
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's ...
Oh hey, God told me to tell you something: Get over yourself.
The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions" - anger, envy, bitterness, greed, ...
I asked her why she was getting so upset about such a small thing. She said, 'It doesn't feel small to me.
After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. ...
If your novel seems to be dragging, one of the first places to look is at the heart of your lead character. Is he giving ...
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Where there is no relationship with God there is no future
If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He ...
I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to ...
That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my ...
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. ...
I always feel like a goofy little kid.
It's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.
Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the ...
"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, ...
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and ...
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' ...
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue ...
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with ...
God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to ...
True humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you; not more and not less.
Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.
Why is partying and having a good time bad?
In entertainment, I adore Ricky Gervais in 'Derek.' His performance is unbelievably charming, funny and poignant. In life, I adore my girlfriend. She is the ...
You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. ...
The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and ...
Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is ...
Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows ...
The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't ...
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't ...
The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence.
My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a ...
All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be ...
I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full ...
Good God, it's like a burly pirate landed in my bed and is waiting for another round of debauchery.
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...
Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like ...
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some ...
Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.
Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day ...
The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before ...
I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why ...
Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues ... you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity ... you ...
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier ...
Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.
California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they ...
I had a really great time tonight. I got to eat great food, meet new people and even play on a stage with you. But ...
GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.
If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when ...
Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah? And when he had struck the water, v the water was parted to the one side and ...
From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your ...
My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a ...
Somebody's on a man hunt. And she's accepting all applicants with a big wallet, a penis, and a beating heart. Good luck with that.
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory ...
You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George ...
Every flight is a gamble. If we don't smash into a cloud bound hillside, we might be picked off like a defenceless lamb by a ...
There is no writers' block, it is just a gitch, a gtch, a tch, shhh. Glitch.
Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.
Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas ...
[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't ...
Now 4th street park after dark is dangerous, might get clapped, if you look strange to us
I'd never seen a guy get the shit kicked out of him without a punch being landed, but there's a first time for everything, and ...
Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the
The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue?
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics ... am I eating ...
A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might ...
I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' ...
I've got lots and lots and lots to tell you." He sounded excited. "I have friends. Ben's a wolf and Tally brought Noor to play, ...