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Reynolds Lucius Wadsworth III was Waddy's real name, the result of a three-generation tradition of unparalleled cruelty in the naming of first-born boys.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things ...

What I want is Lightower's office

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, ...

One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't ...

I wait for his regret, his guilt, but it does not come. He is a man who always sees the good in things. And in ...

Love Kills Slowly

For me, Malak was always the 'brawn' to Revan's 'brain' - he was renowned for his combat abilities, and I always felt that he was ...

What do you have in this car?" he asked."What do you mean, like weapons?""That would be a good start.""Well, I 've got a mini Swiss ...

The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.

Being broken open by the storm is your only hope.

Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be ...

In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area was ...

Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?

God is not here to be demanded of, begged from, or criticized. He hands out burdens to those who are strong enough to carry them, ...

It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both ...

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.

Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?

When you truly love someone, you will be there every second they need you to! no matter what they are doing or what they want ...

Just like equality, rights and limited liability companies, liberty is something that people invented and that exists only in their imagination. From

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.''It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your ...

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a ...

Both joy and gratitude go hand in hand together. More grateful you are more joyful you will be.

What greater honor,when a person moves forward,they leave behind in each of us, the best of what they were.

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. ...

Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so ...

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part ...

Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek - tender and calloused. ...

Uh-oh,' Lafitte said ominously. 'Swamp queen just go angry.

Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest," Mrs. Grogan was saying, "and peace at last." Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud's, who ...

God has called us out of darkness into His marvellous light.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with ...

It's not letting your anger out that gets people hurt. Its keeping the anger locked up in side that hurts you.

Manassa naught, a padded white envelope with no return address, landlocked and antiseptic, exploited like a gas station. Beauty passes through in the briefest of ...

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be ...

You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.

Oh my God. For most of eternity, I won't exist. That leaves two options: live forever or destroy the universe. Hm... I may have to ...

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a ...

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near ...

We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime. Very few people could get licences, which were required right ...

Well done to the lady lineswoman.

I believe in manicures.I believe in overdressing.I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

I realize now, I was learning how to walk as well. I haven't mastered the steps, I fall too. But im on my path, my ...

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at ...

I saw within Its depth how It conceivesAll things in a single volume bound by Loveof which the universe is the scattered leaves.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who ...

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your ...

So, my brother and I, over the last two years, went back through Scripture and pulled every (passage) we could in relation to parenting children, ...

If you can't get something to work. Make a face and try again LOL I works!!

He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has ...

Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers ...

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it ... its appeal is permanent.

...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure...

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

If you survive, you've got to live with the guilt, and that's more difficult than looking someone in the eye and pulling the trigger. Trust ...

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest ...

If music be the food of love, get me a supersized big mac, chips, two apple pies and a large milkshake.

Just like the sea, she was turbulent and wild, angry and loving. She felt every sensation, but it was only here, with water around her, ...

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not ...

You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people did before you.

Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.

I'm asking for you to save my life because with every breath in my body, I love you. I'll love you until my last. Without ...

But what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside ...

People always say humour helps to avoid the dark things in life. I think it's the opposite. Humour helps us understand and partner with the ...

She was a girl. A living girl, smart and sweet and awkward and unusual, and she was worth far more than they could ever realize.

You really don't get how amazing you are, do you? Well let me make it really clear for you - so amazing that I would ...

In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have ...

You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the ...

Oh, how this world needs Filipino trailblazers! Yes, we can be that.

Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is ...

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest ...

While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is ...

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.

No holy place existed without us then,no woodland, no dance, no sound.Beyond all hope, I prayed those timelessdays we spent might be made twice as ...

Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes - a blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I ...

The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand ...

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or ...

Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with ...

If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.

Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, ...

I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians,' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human beings.

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let ...

We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby ...

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't pointto.

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

That melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we ...

This was my life. And you know what?Life was pretty damn good. Even despite the fact that I had no clue where I was.