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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot ...
I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was ...
I wanna make growing old with youthe last poem I ever have to write
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys ...
You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie ...
The desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.
But even though she was wise beyond her years, she was still young, and so was I, and all of our words were drowned out ...
You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at ...
Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last ...
The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot ...
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, ...
My mind reeling with the concept that a human being, a man, could feel pride over sodomizing another man,
It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from ...
Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories ...
I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life ...
There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in ...
I've always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it moves on, it ...
Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy and ...
Never struggle against any obstacle; Observe, concentrate and witness;Accept, indulge to transform and overcome,For or against, but with equal respect and in totality.
One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...
My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese ...
I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life ...
Anger rose in me. Didn't they know how hard I'd been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted.
Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where ...
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what ...
I would prefer to have gum on my face than own up to the fact that I accidentally got gum on my face. And of ...
It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you ...
So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter ...
It felt wrong for me to stay totally connected to that very strict way of approaching the heritage - what it can be, what it ...
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.
Hard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy.
Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is ...
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 ...
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...
True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path ...
The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - ...
But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and ...
We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our ...
You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at ...
There was no reason to get upset over one missed opportunity when so many more lay ahead.
Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...
It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's ...
They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how ...
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about ...
For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe ...
The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every ...
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.
Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt ...
If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody ...
What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to ...
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were ...
Who wouldn't want to watch an averagely attractive guy kick a three legged, one eyed dog in the face as it urinates all over itself? ...
There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, ...
I liked to be in my own company, so when I came home from school, I'd just go up to my room and hang out ...
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her ...
She had the wild look of someone who hadn't slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being ...
When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.
Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space ...
When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - ...
Your emotions are your own business.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make ...
When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that ...
There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking ...
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your ...
It's morning when I go to sleepIn the distant dawn a church bell ringsAnother day is coming onA baby's born, an old man diesSomewhere young ...
When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.
His weekly golf game no longer keeps his love handles in check, he's recently resorted to a slight comb-over to cover that growing bald spot, ...
A man was leaning idly against an elm ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle, too old for a ...
The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well ...
Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few ...
As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will ...
But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was ...
I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and ...
Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come ...
I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends ...
Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
For God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, also gave her power over his adopted children - not only in what ...
I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had ...
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be ...
I used the Deep Cleansing Masque on my wedding day because I wanted everything - including my complexion - to be perfect!
What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
The only relationship where you'll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.
One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.
No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come ...
I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...
Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't ...
Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, ...
Money is dehydrated mercy. If you have plenty of it, you just add tears, and people come out of the woodwork to comfort you.
It is that something in the soul which says, - Rage on, whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere; master of the spasms of ...
All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, ...