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Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural ...
In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject ...
I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.
Prove yourself and others wrong everyday by redefining who you THINK you are, through performing actions you would normally deem impossible or uncharacteristic of you.
I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be ...
I'd love to open a restaurant that changes every month. One month it would be a mom and bar spaghetti-and-meatball, Red Sox place, and the ...
This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrotherwas in there tongue wrestling with the ...
How chocolate turned white and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can't unmix things no matter how much you might want to.
One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that ...
I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.
Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately stomped ...
Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years ...
It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I ...
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L
Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I
A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving ...
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront ...
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's ...
Real kindness and compassion is not about feeling sorry for someone else. Rather, it is showing up, to help them discover their true value.
Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. ...
If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts ... No Rotarian whose motto is Service ...
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self ...
I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please ...
Well, I've spent a lot of time in your libraries at night," said Ripred. "You come up and read books?" asked Gregor."Read them, eat them, ...
The only Commandment I ever obeyed - 'Consider the Lilies. ...
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general gooda shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and ...
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my ...
My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's ...
Prepare a crossing party," snapped Horyse. "A single person to cross. Miss Abhorsen, here. And Sergeant, if you or Private Rahise so much as talk ...
We all have human emotions that rob our lives.
Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly.
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.
Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon ...
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
I don't see a way in," Eve whispered.Why are you whispering?" Myrnin whispered back. "Vampires can hear us, anyway.
But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe ...
When we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world, and our entire bodies get recharged. However often ...
In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been ...
The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion ...
Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutumReddere ...
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.
I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.
The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich.
The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people
A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths.
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
That's how it is online - there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different ...
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly ...
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was ...
I know it's hard. It's one of the hardest things there is, but you know we can't make people love us. It happens, or it ...
Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it.
A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base.
The nearer we approach to God, the more we are drawn by Him.
I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be ...
Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing. Never have enough time here, always trying to make our way there. Need to have left here five ...
I went through a real punk stage-I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then about ...
Science is proving it now and the old spiritual books said it centuries ago that negative thoughts are the primary source of all the internal ...
If you run away from trouble, it always follows.'Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.
Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow ever ...
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
All the same, we should get to bed," whispered Hermione. "It wouldn't do to oversleep tomorrow.""No," agreed Ron. "A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom's ...
Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down."You're in fine temper," Raffin said."Your hair ...
If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it's not even up ...
I could easily falling in love with Ruby Sparks, wizard!
Life without loveIs as night without day
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn't sending you the 'let's go back to my ...
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart ...
Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins - rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I'd ...
Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends ...
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will ...
I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by ...
Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: ...
But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until ...
I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required ...
In the US and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling ...
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ...
Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,
No doubt Pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the ...
Thus, an index built for vector space retrieval cannot, in general, be used for phrase queries. Moreover, there is no way of demanding a vector ...
Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.
You hold the key. And you can keep it in your hand for as long as you need to. But there will come a point ...
I have to relearn how to walk again. It's not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get ...