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One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we ...

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...

Wealthy people are often criticized for being obsessed with money, but the truth is, it's the poor, working, and middle class that spend the most ...

I see you Norah. I have always been able to see inside you. I feel you when you're not around. You act like we don't ...

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second ...

Internal and external world is interdependent. Your experiences and impressions of the outside world shape your thoughts and imagination, while making the choice and decisions, ...

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.

I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but ...

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really ...

Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living ...

Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

It's never too late to get down on your knees and pray.

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. ...

I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, ...

I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy ...

And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," ...

Everything real is in the present moment. Only here can we find happiness and harmony, feel alive and do something that will change our future. ...

The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because ...

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and ...

Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.

Only God knows how much I love you.

That's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what ...

The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize ...

I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head. "You tired to what?" asks Eric"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she ...

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King ...

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time ... all the ...

If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and an endless barrage ...

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.

I don't avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I'm seeing. And ...

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to ...

When you walk with trash, you end up smelling the same.

You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you ...

I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

I am married,' she shouted, 'to the cupboard under the sink.' A remark made more mysterious to Mrs Barnes by the sound of a passing ...

Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll ...

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be ...

Life is all about dancing freely while the music is still playing, but remaining optimistic about the next song. If you're lucky, someone will expectantly ...

Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in ...

Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise ...

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...

Oh, all my friends,Young or old, mad or sad, Loving or kind, optimist or pessimist, Enjoy the drama of life, enjoy the beauty of life, ...

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the ...

When the last tree is cut, When the last river is emptied, When the last fish is caught, Only then will Man realize that he ...

We never let our people just go. (Joe) What are you? Wolfram and Hart? (Steele) Oh, no, sweetie, they just take your soul for service. ...

Developing spirituality is critical to our eternal progress. The fruits of eternal progress are manifest in joy, peace, love, hope, increased confidence in the Lord.

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a ...

A visitor to campus can find sweet, aromatic Properity, as well as Climbing Ophelia and those delicious Egyptian Roses, which give off the scent of ...

Tawny shrugged. "I was overreacting. Typical big sister move. He explained why he did it, and it makes sense, in a slightly twisted way. He's ...

I have to race because racing is a part of me. But I had to learn to race from a place of joy. Not pain. ...

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this ...

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there ...

That's not precisely what I had in mind. Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of ...

Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? ...

So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were ...

Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for ...

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For ...

Raw food is the best way to have the cleanest energy. We take so much care about what kind of fuel we put in our ...

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine ...

Too many new writers dress up old cliches.

She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can't get in and she doesn't come out. Not often anyway, and certainly ...

Am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even ...

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never ...

Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate from my heart and spread throughout ...

It's no wonder I can't get it out, Hermione, you packed my old jeans, they're tight.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in.

Effortlessly, the man sowed the idea of sex with his quips, the smiles, and something as innocent as their legs brushing against one another.

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of ...

Life shouldn't be measured in hours for the vagueness in which they exist, but moments; moments are memorable and we could easily say that a ...

Unto us Saviour is born at Christmas.The love and light of the World.

At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, ...

I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in.

They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. ...

She finally figure out that she, Liz Emerson, was the equal and opposite reaction. She was the consequence.

Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves ...

The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running ...

You're only as strong as your weakest link so you've got to make sure everybody in your crew is on point.

The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

Oh yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or learn from it.

It's the old elephant hunter joke, where a guy asserts he's the local elephant hunter, you respond that there aren't any elephants around there, and ...

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds ...

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 ...

Naomi looks at me, her orange-brown eyes rimmed in dark shadow flecked with silver sparkles. All of that darkness around the pop of color in ...

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

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 ...

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 ...

One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.[Lat., Omnes una manet nox,Et calcanda semel via leti.]

But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, ...

I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best ...

Each failure brings you one step closer to success.