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During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support ...

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh ...

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary.

You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP

- ... And you keep them all locked in? These visiting carriers? - They're always watched - But not locked in? The honor is specific ...

I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I ...

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Thank God, she thought fervently ... thank God for not granting certain wishes, and for guiding her to a far sweeter fate.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future. So

Why bother with a trial? If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.

When I went to visit this rice cake plant, I hadn't realized how the rice cakes were made. As soon as I saw the molds ...

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than ...

It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the ...

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

... all that matters is how to rise, for you are half out of your mind.

As I dial 9-1-1, I think: He's not nowhere. He's not dead. He just found that other world.

When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.

Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it ...

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

People, even those closest to you, are surprising...Nobody is everything they seem.

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

Form is useful, but it is secondary.

We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a ...

So many laws argues so many sins.

I'm gonna live today like this is my last day..

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.

Were you her lover? Did she cheat on you?" He paused. Rhoswen glared at him but remained silent. He said, "I'm gonna take a wild ...

I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer ...

They say the only way you can truly kill a Celestra is by fire. I would gladly lend myself to the flames to peer down ...

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. ...

The best way to get over your fears is to face them.

This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down ...

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning ...

I think if you have someone without a sense of humor, you're less likely to be together.

Finger into her vagina. He moved

Bezos ultimately concluded that if Amazon was to continue to thrive as a bookseller in a new digital age, it must own the e-book business ...

Belize has a tropical climate and is quite affordable and is developing a reputation as an inexpensive Hawaii. If you want to hide away someplace ...

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are ...

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines ...

Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

How can a person have so much noise inside their head and at the same time feel like they're drowning in silence?

In eastern Washington, the territory around the Hanford reservation is promoted as the last stand of original shrub-sage habitat in the Columbia Basin, yet periodically ...

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

Find joy in the ordinary.

The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though ...

At least I'd learn the lesson that friends can make up for the failings of your family.

We do not have control over many thingsin life and deathbut we do have controlover the meaning we give it.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.

Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as ...

We learn only to ask more questions.

In the aftermath, we are because they were.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think ...

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to ...

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited ... Focus your attention on God, and you shall ...

I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring ...

I knew then that I would have to be careful. I would have to wear gloves, to leave no trace when I burgled the crammed ...

The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask ...

When we are aware about our body's sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.

You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have ...

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, ...

But when Kaname asked: "Would you like to separate, then?" Misako answered: "Would you?" They knew that divorce was the solution, and yet neither had ...

Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or ...

I've known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them ... to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a ...

When your inner demons rise up, grab them by the throat and take control.

God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old ...

To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

I'd asked girls out and they'd turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn't want to be rejected. And ...

(the term 'lunatic' derives from luna, the Latin word for moon). Many writers, from antiquity onwards, maintained that the mad were directly affected by the ...

Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching ...

Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.

The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn't equal a perfect life.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the ...

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something movedpressing toward death with quiet insistent joythe thread through the ...

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had ...

Redemption could be one rescue away.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often ...

Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They ...

I always put in my 100 percent. Once the film is over, I look at my next, because then it's up to the audience to ...

The crime of capitalism is that it forces the vast majority of the population to remain preoccupied with basic concerns of nutrition, housing, health, and ...

We can only learn so much and live.