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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer ... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone ...

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but ...

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not ...

Sometime your only blocks are you.... Stop thinking small and play with the unlimited power you have been given.

The chief need was skill rather than machinery. It was impossible to fly without both knowledge and skill - of this Wilbur was already certain ...

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw ...

Better to be a mouse behind the wainscoting, nibbling at the wires. Better to be a spider, high up under the eaves, spinning its web.

To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By ...

Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and ...

But you need to make sure that the last thing you remember about today isn't that you fell down, it's that you got back up ...

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you ...

Bible's Song of Solomon, "Love is strong as death." Or perhaps even stronger.

But even that day, there on the porch, with Charles beside me and the smell of wood smoke in the air, it had the quality ...

Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it's even more important to live like there is no yesterday. ...

The dark was real, though. It almost always is.

All in all, I'd say,the world is strangling.And I, in my bed each night,listen to my twenty shoesconverse about it.And the moon,under its dark hood,falls ...

At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one ...

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might ...

A good plan is founded on a clear understanding of your goals for the long-term and the short-term.

Every journey we take begins with baby steps, baby talk and it helps us to grow healthy and strong towards our different fields we are ...

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

An evil and inferior element has entered the situation and will grow over time if nothing is done to stop it.

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the ...

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

If you don't feel an overwhelming sense of emotion when you listen to music, then you're listening to the wrong kind.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

You're not enjoying yourself," Syl said. "You're starting to sound a lot like my mother." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Repetitive." "Captivating?" Syl said. ...

I've never understood why anybody makes a big deal about mansions. It's just a house with more rooms. You still have to face yourself.

If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female ...

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on ...

We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...

I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party ...

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ... No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right ...

Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is ...

So long as you use a knife, there's some love left.

Around her the tables were filling with people, tourists planning their next stop over a coffee, businessmen meeting for luncheon, well-heeled women taking a break ...

I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.

Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.

It reminds me of like this pathetic friend that everybody had when they were a little kid who would let you borrow any of his ...

Feel their self-worth is pretty high, so that they can achieve; so that they can take on the world - so

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

She was wishing Adam was here.Now wasn't that a scary realization to her inner, overly independent, I-am-woman-who-will-never-need-a-man-so-hear-me-roar, feminine badass self?" ~ Jenna

Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.

Not the bee upon the blossom,In the pride o' sunny noon;Not the little sporting fairy,All beneath the simmer moon;Not the poet, in the momentFancy lightens ...

Once there were four children

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

Most women at some point or many points in their lives will have to deal with an unwanted advance and having the confidence to be ...

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.

I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear ...

Now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call ...

Everyone is a social animal and everyone is socially relevant..Everyone is responsible to contribute in whatever way they can..The 'Contribution' needs no one's approval..It just ...

My name is Wendell Potter and for 20 years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies, and I saw how they confuse ...

Perseverance is a great element of success.

I have this thing that whenever the slightest embarrassment happens I go bright red. Not in the attractive English-rose way; in the way that someone ...

The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and ...

Even if we're continually tempted to lower our guard - for love or weariness, for sympathy or kindness - we women shouldn't do it. We ...

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I ...

I never talked about you much. I said to Hardy. My voice sounded odd to my own ears.Hardy stared into my eyes and nodded, understanding ...

In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is ...

I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you ...

Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically ...

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken ...

It's just an inspiring journey in itself to stop drinking this late in my career after abusing alcohol and to have this kind of success ...

I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be ...

I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?

You know where we got stuck? We were looking for faithfull, loving and perfect relationships-males who were always glad to see us." "So?" "We already ...

Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge ofthe blizzard. But once the ...

To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old Granary ...

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

Victory is a thing of the will.

And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of ...

The Lord Jesus loves His people, and when they put their trust in Him, depending wholly upon Him, He strengthens them. He will live through ...

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

I did take a huge leap moving countries. People have no idea how huge it is to relocate overseas. Finding your new life alone is ...

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history ... It is beyond question that the secret societies ...

Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have ...

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and ...

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers ...

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can't ...

From the floor, I see the tops of the Philadelphia skyline out of her window. Staring at it, I realize that the night sky isn't ...

I cannot lose you. Don't you get that? You weren't supposed to be mine. I am, and will always be, too dangerous for you, but ...

There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. ...

A 20/20 mindset produces clarity, joy, and peace in your life. It produces RESULTS.

I still have hope that I won't have to confess it all, but he must have gone through angel interrogation school because he gets it ...

Those born under Pacific Northwest skies are like daffodils: they can achieve beauty only after a long, cold sulk in the rain.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed ...