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Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is ...
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength ...
In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!
The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not ...
Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance ...
And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no ...
I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.
In the distance, up the street, too far away for Sam to want to chase after, a couple of kids, maybe ten years old, maybe ...
Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that ...
What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
Chance could share shit like that with his brother. Chance shared everything with his brother. To him, Quinn was some sort of superhero who occasionally ...
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent ...
You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.
We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon ...
I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...
We became acutely aware of the profound healing that is needed in our species. We knew with conviction that what we were doing, as women ...
The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is ...
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead ...
If you can go through life being brave enough to run toward the things you deserve, and the people and the things that you love, ...
I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with ...
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you ...
Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is ...
Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a ...
I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.
We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we ...
Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...
The next question is how? How does news find us? What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost ...
I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. ...
So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter ...
Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. ...
Always live the adventure.
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths ...
This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident ...
My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
He caught hold of Tom's leg - as well as he could, it was thick as a young tree-trunk - but he was sent spinning ...
Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, ...
I bear a hell within me," Black Tom growled. "And finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around ...
My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posteritya good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself ...
Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence ...
I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.
Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to ...
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
Because from what I've seen of marriages and relationships, there aren't any rules. You deal with what comes, like anything else in life. There's no ...
A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an ...
As our characters in our 'X-FORCE' began to push at the boundaries of what 'X-FORCE' was, it made perfect story sense for the team to ...
The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections ...
We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
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 ...
People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the ...
What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, ...
There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but ...
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do ...
I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes ...
I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a ...
It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I ...
Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.
It's easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail ...
Start where you are right at this very moment, capture everything you are thankful for, and then carry on with that feeling inside. You will ...
You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people ...
I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the ...
Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession ...
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
Okay, how's this? I've been to Heaven and Hell. I've seen the whole world, but the only thing that makes me want to live is ...
Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and the wounds of man. Two human weaknesses only intensify ...
I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...
Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach ...
What's truly importantand what I find myself forgetting and having to relearnis that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and ...
Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and ...
Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o' the milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way:
Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training ...
I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. ...
Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is ...
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a ...
Fine." Patrick muttered without confidence. "Anything is better than waiting around here." "Time for a little family reunion." Johnny remarked. At the agreement, the four ...
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first ...
I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make ...
I started to realize that everyone goes through those doubts, and I need to try and be the best version of me I can - ...
I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet ...
I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the ...
Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine
Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn't want to go to school: half ...
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening ...
Forced relations between two things that superficially appear foreign create a new, instantaneous state. Authentic poetry asks nothing more. A kinship completely nonexistent moments ago ...
Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.
Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.
It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text ...
Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind ...
As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the ...