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Don't let anyone set restrictions on your life ... You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don't let people have such ...

I love breasts. I love the female shape. It's crazy - you can have movie posters with men with machine guns but, oh, God forbid ...

Norman Vincent Peale "A peaceful mind generates power." from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking.

Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.

Never act in fear nor lose hope.

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not ...

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and ...

She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.

Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections ...

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, ...

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of ...

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that ...

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

Because sometimes that's how life is. A puzzle made up of a million pieces, and when one piece doesn't exactly fit, it throws the rest ...

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace ...

If you don't suffer the pain of hard work now you will suffer the pain of regret and disappointment later.

The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious ...

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really ...

It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

You write so beautifullythe inside of your mind must be a terrible place

It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make ...

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times ...

Say that a good student could learn more from a bad teacher than a poor

Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your ...

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be ...

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The ...

People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to ...

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow ...

SOMETIMES THE POOL-PAH," Bokonon tells us, "exceeds the power of humans to comment." Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as ...

You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something ...

I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, ...

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to ...

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose ...

Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society's image is ...

I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never ...

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your ...

My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.

Parents here only view school as a way to avoid being illiterate. They don't see education as a way to change their future and help ...

I am AFRAID OF TALKING WITH PEOPLE... MAINLY BECAUSE WORDS LOSE WEIGHT... MAINLY BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T PUT VALUE ON THEM.

There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost ...

Only.. I want to do die as myself

A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

8In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls ...

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business ...

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, ...

Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will ...

I pull away and all the magical qualities of his touch fade. It's the worst feeling in the world.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain ...

The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, ...

I can't stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of ...

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively ...

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the ...

Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.

In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering

Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where ...

It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those ...

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and ...

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a ...

Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is ...

Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had ...

You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible." Father gazed at the Station. "Sir, I can give you nothing. ...

When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and ...

God's will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. ...

Politics works on the principle that an idiot who knows more idiots is an intelligent.

New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and ...

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary ...

Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me ...

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the ...

My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing ...

With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech ...

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've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion ...

The problem with such guidelines is that they never seemed applicable to the real-world situation.

Don't know when my life came to visualising intense pain and tragedy to putting it down on paper, to putting across a message of love ...

I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed were hidden all ...

Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man ...

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing ...