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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,Crept like a frightened girl.
My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ...
All models are wrong, but some models are useful.90 What he meant by that is that all models are simplifications of the universe, as they ...
To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a ...
Hold tight the gift seeds in thy palms. Sow them all when the time is right. By God's wisdom they'll grow, not by thy might. ...
A Correct Message Is A Correct Attitude.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 2, 2016
Please stop stalking my profile.
Even if your eyes can no longer see, your eyes can no longer hear, your body can no longer move, your lips no longer able ...
I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their ...
Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - ...
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the ...
You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the ...
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in ...
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
Dating a successful man/woman will never make you successful.Success is not sexually transmitted.
Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The ...
Are you happy?"Same question he asked me every day, and I always gave the same honest answer. "You are my happiness.
There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of ...
Every day my style changes with my mood. Some days I'll feel a little more grunge and wear boyfriend jeans, but in the summer I ...
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience ...
I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong ...
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that ...
I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, ...
He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking ...
If we could see ourselves ... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began ...
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, ...
On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her ...
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
I want to make people smile. I want to tell an epic story ... with laughter. I want to change the way people view the ...
I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems.
The December days had a certain luminosity and sparkle, like frost on bare branches, alight in the morning just before it melts. Mabel
Change the way of looking at things and your soul will get a beautiful shine.
I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.
The rainbow began to appear, and sometimes two rainbows, like a mother and her daughter, the one young and beautiful, and the other an old ...
My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, ...
Lounging indolently in a black silk robe which was loosely tied at the front and which appeared to conceal nothing more than bare skin ... ...
Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the ...
You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.
Once we have entrusted our hope about something to God, we no longer quarrel with our neighbor over it. (St. Kosmas Aitolos)
Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless ...
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. ...
'Queen of Hearts' is one I'm really proud of because I worked so hard on it, and then I was told it wasn't good enough ...
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for ...
Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...
I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies ...
A gush of bird song, a patter of dewA cloud and a rainbow's warning;Suddenly sunshine and perfect blueAn April day in the morning!
Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. ...
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom ...
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 ...
For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. ...
Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. ...
We're headed for Aleph-7. Panty raid. New slang term for the type of operation whose main object was to gather Tauran artifacts, and prisoners if ...
H = L + F + GDedicated to those of us in need of a mathematical equation to explain the key to happiness in life.Simply ...
People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same ...
For the first time, Cupid's gaze seemed sympathetic. "Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy." His voice sounded smaller, much more human. "Sometimes ...
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are ...
Do I seem one who will not defend myself? You are her father, so I will make myself clear. Any who seek her harm I ...
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up ...
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once did I imagine ...
You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of ...
Guilt was not a good look for him - it gave one unsightly lines. And now he felt bad for being rude to the housekeeper, ...
Fact, no matter how minutely observed, is truth with a small "t." Big "T" Truth is located behind, beyond, inside, below the surface of things, ...
There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits ...
I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'
It is better to develop ideas with friends rather than the usual route of having a great idea and throwing it out into a production, ...
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
Why would you cry for someone who's already gone? You should cry for someone who is still here but is about to go away. That ...
Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.
She wandered out for a walk. It was the kind of day that pretends spring has come, even though it hasn't. The air smelled sweet, ...
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much ...
The clouds are scudding across the moon,A misty light is on the sea;The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune,And the foam is flying ...
Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more ...
It's good for you to write down your thoughts. It'stherapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think aboutlife.
It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.
The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at ...
The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically ...
Guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the war, except to ...
If you have to fall in love, fall in love with the magnificent beauty of a sunset. That love will beautify yourself and your world.
God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you alway having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work
He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete ...
Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because ...
Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if ...
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The ...
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not ...
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me ...
Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it. No happening is so important that we should let ...
A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I ...