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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have ...
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet.
I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly ...
Marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for ...
Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.
The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and ...
What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.
Dreams are epitome of life.
I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - ...
Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to ...
To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing ...
At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the ...
There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.
It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.
To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity.
When you are down and you don't know how to pick yourself up, start where you are. I can hear Pat's voice saying the words ...
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this ...
Tell me what a man does in the matter of Bible-reading and praying, in the matter of Sunday, public worship, and the Lord's Supper, and ...
If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming ...
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred ...
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, Otto, let my people go!
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had ...
Every decision you ever make has its own consequences. Freedom is not the issue. You have freedom to do what you want, you just cannot ...
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always ...
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.
To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself ...
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can ...
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress ...
It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being ...
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I ...
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief ...
I've been trying for two years to read this book, and I never get past these first few pages.
He considered my question for a moment and then ducked his head to kiss me. He tugged me flush up against his chest , pulling ...
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
Takano Masamune- " Maybe it's just me being rebellious, but...when I'm shown something so innocent and pure, it forces me to see the filthy part ...
'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether ...
Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.
And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts ...
I wasn't born a monster, though my choices certainly have made me one. But I can't stop myself. I can't. Causing pain to others when ...
Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. ...
He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.
Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes ...
Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.
We allow poor teachers to hang around and plague our schools until they choose to retire. That
The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. ...
When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as ...
As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.
Jewish people, we're repulsed by Hitler, but we're obsessed with him. If you ever want to rob a Jewish person's house, all you have to ...
I don't ever want it to be a question whether I'm a Pro Bowl-caliber player, I believe I'm the best at what I do, and ...
One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical ...
Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct.
I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and since ...
It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.
Gratitude is not just a word; it is a way a of life.
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast ...
Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when ...
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.
Do not attempt to lose weight without training your muscles at the same time. Prepare, plan, and persist...and get it right the first time. This
LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. ...
Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me ...
The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part ...
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 ...
Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a ...
She wondered if seeds ever resented the sun, knowing it would shine with no quarter and give them no choice but to push their heads ...
As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting ...
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
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 ...
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed ...
What happened was, my parents after 'Circus Boy' decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. ...
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
Power of softness and kindness are the greatest.
One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind ...
I am a professional liar. I am two people. I take pleasure in experimenting with people's emotions, people who trust me, putting their understanding of ...
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 ...
Living Life without a Purpose is like having an Ice cream cone in your hand, letting it melt and drip without eating it. It was ...
The possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.
When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as ...
Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, ...
I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like ...
When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.