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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does ...
If you want to be loved, love.
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
I can hear the roar of women's silence
When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.
I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else."Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in ...
Life's experiences are not woven with a constant thread; Life in our world is constantly changing. We must repurpose what we have endured and the ...
Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an ...
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic ...
What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into ...
When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.
Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed ...
For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling ...
It had been a boy's trick, Jerott remembered. Standing bareback on your father's horses; somersaulting, chariot-riding. Francis, buried in books, had never publicly attempted it. ...
There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. ...
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with ...
I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and ...
You sold your soul to feed your vanity..
You may be a Founding Father and all that, but you still leave an occasional skidmark in your underdrawers.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or ...
The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness ... seeing beauty in a flower could ...
Maybe you're sleepwalking. And sleeptexting. And sleepprimping.""What's next?" I grumbled to myself. Things were getting more out of control by the minute."I don't know," she ...
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps ...
Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea ...
Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.
Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who ...
For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening ...
My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of ...
You would think he was somebody the way he carries on. My God, he's from Spartanburg. Spartanburg of all the pitiful places. The upcountry. The ...
Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.
Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.
Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake
If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a ...
These were people ... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People ...
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling ...
Goodbye Stevie, I'm sorry for leaving you, but when you find out about me, as you definitely will do one day, then you'll be glad ...
Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too ...
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's ...
I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.
If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know ...
So that's why vampires are so pissed off all the time? Because their junk's gone rusty?
A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over ...
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are ...
We've all become so conscious of how we'll be perceived and so frightened topossibly offend someone that we've filtered ourselves to what borders on dishonesty. ...
Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.
The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffere everything.
Focus on your own goals and how to achieve them. No one took your spot, there's room for all of us.
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, ...
God is never late, but He sure is slow.
Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world.
I looked back at him. "I'm in love with you, so yes." He closed his eyes and he did it slowly, dropping his head. That ...
The world champion rider in any event was at one time a beginner
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
We found that people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind. The authors of The Invisible Gorilla had made the gorilla "invisible" ...
That boy is sprung on you and he is a nice guy. A superhot, supersexy nice guy. Do you know how rare that is? He's ...
The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a ...
Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. ...
Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.
No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete ...
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording ...
I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter ...
In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our ...
Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' ...
Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. ...
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors?Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did ...
My mom and my dad are still together, but so many of my friends who got married just a few years ago aren't. Maybe it's ...
Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas ...
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not ...
I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on ...
It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
To mourn is to feel a flower's slow death, hill bear. To bed a man is to recall the flower's bright glory.
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
Quality Never dies.
When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.
Love is at the root of a positive attitude.
I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned ...
I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the ...
I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that ...
God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and ...
He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."Adam's lip curled. "Remind me not to piss you ...
Booming and yet muffled, croaking, like an amplified premature burial, it called out "Merriiiiinnnnnn!" And then the massive and shiveringly hollow jolt of a single ...
The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it ...
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in ...
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.
Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on.
Within minutes, mounds of concrete and earth were stacked and piled. The streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road, ...
Where's Feathertail? Graystripe's gaze flicked past Stormfur as if he expected to see the pale-gray she-cat waiting at the foot of the rocks. Squirrelpaw stared ...
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.
Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.
The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said, partly because I was only ...
Is it possible to fall in love at thirteen, because I think I just looked into the eyes of the girl I want to look ...
The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security ...