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There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

I've felt the hate rise up in me ... Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves ... I wander out where you can't see ...

He hadn't killed or shagged even one single person in front of me - which I felt was a rather good indication of his superior ...

Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or ...

Call it 'nationalism' when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word 'patriotism' for your efforts to make this country a kinder, ...

Life is loves shrinewhen you're my valentine.

Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to act ...

Most people are more willing to enter an airplane than jump on a trampoline. And, they're more terrified from bungee jumping, than spending hours at ...

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting ...

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the ...

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and ...

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength," he finally told them, "is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in ...

You've been through a lot, I know that. We all know that. What you had to do to stay alive with them, all while helping ...

Our culture encourages us to pursue pleasure at all costs, to look for what will please us in the present and not to think about ...

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present ...

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to ...

There is bad in good and there is no good in bad.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

In life in general, you're never bulletproof, about the time you start thinking that, I always tell people, the karma train will come run you ...

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

48 Belief in progress doesn't mean belief in progress that has already occurred. That would not require belief.

The angels threw glitter up there, just for you, Zoe, Daddy had told her. They celebrated almost as much as I did the day you ...

Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the ...

My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of ...

Yes, I've heard you each and every time you've asked. But, I'm not ready to have that conversation and I have bigger stuff going on ...

When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved - isn't that playing God as well?

They should be working, and there isn't enough work.

You're damn right it'd be something caves of ice and ancestral war voices prophesying about damsels and sacred rivers screaming beware and your hair would ...

I'm passionate about music, food, books, film, blah, blah. The same things everyone is passionate about, no? Love, sex, connection. Peace. Not f - - ...

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a ...

The will to act is a renewable resource.

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should ...

Stick to your teaching, Miss Alcott. You can't write.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

Without emotion there is no beauty

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

The one who is not being born is dying.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child ...

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat ...

He fulfilled the bipolar checklist. See? And so they gave him some pretty heavy-duty medication. It slowed him way down, to a drooling fat kid. ...

Truly mature people are so detached from others that they can love their enemies, bless those who curse them, do good to those who hate ...

We're all in the business of selling ideas to the masses, and we all think our ideas are the ones to save the world,

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only ...

I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.

If any man has a ghostBourne has a ghosta tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone ...

You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right ...

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, ...

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

For it all, we gladly sacrifice. With it all, we proudly defend." Spoken first by a Sirunre citizen, a member of the Kingdom Alliance of ...

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your ...

The last thing he wanted after a hellish night like this one was some blasted day coming along and barging about the place.

So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed.

Words are valuable. They're the wealth of a soul.

Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her.

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful ...

Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

It's hard to be an ornithologist and walk through a wood when all around you the world is shouting: 'Bugger off, this is my bush! ...

One could not attain greater personal excellence without also paving the way for everyone else in society to attain it as well.

It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in ...

We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural ...

Show her those boring shirts you bought. She'll go into a coma. I'm about ready to.

So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that ...

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those ...

I am not a noble, I do not have the blood of knights in me." Elissa squeezed his hands. "I am not asking for your ...

As if you are their mother, be kind to others.

I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very ...

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute ...

I think I've got the best job around.

He noticed an inscription written on the floor at the foot of a pile of bones: What you are, they once were. What they are, ...

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

Visionary leaders help people to see how their work fits into the big picture, lending people a clear sense not just that what they do ...

Ignorance is more costly than the price of a book.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

No one was around to publicly shame me, but I am perfectly able to shame myself. And worse -- around myself it is not a ...

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right.""Who is Mark?""A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say ...

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love ...

This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.

It is necessary for you to walk according to the spirit because the spirit lusts against the flesh

I want nothing more in this life than to make you mine and to be yours in return. I know it may take you a ...

There was something fascinating about tall thin men, the way their bones and Adam's apple lurked so unconcealed beneath the skin, their birdlike faces, their ...

And Jon had ordered benches and tables brought in. Men with comfortable seats were more inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing ...

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers

I'm a man of few words, most of them end in off!

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.