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Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be ...

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in ...

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

I got no hate in me.

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond ...

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares," [Freya] wrote. "To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to ...

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God ...

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty ...

Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.

I'm convinced that none of the important achievements in human history were accomplished before ten-thirty or eleven in the morning!"17

It felt like there was a dark spot in my heart. Like a bruise. And it was getting deeper and wider with every lie I ...

Keep being persistent in your work and keep moving forward

Deep inside each one of us is the desire to write and control our own script of life.

Sometimes, the only things that make you feel good are the same ones that worked when you were five. Yes, I slammed the door

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His ...

The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.

Illusions are dangerous . . . Ideas are infallible, people are not. Don't confuse the two.

I've never said flange to a monkey!

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones ...

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like ...

Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker!

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule ...

Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon ...

The soul is the body's vanity and pleasure as long as the body's in good health, but it's also the urge to escape from the ...

If I find out that you wasted the best years of my little girl's life because of your fine-wine-aging process, I'm going to kill you.

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope ...

I'll see you later.

When I needed an e-book formatted fast and formatted perfectly, Polgarus Studio came through for me. My expectations were exceeded. It's a relief knowing I ...

Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to ...

Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured rubber into the ...

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

While I fielded holiday news requests and worked on my end of year expense reports, the Angel of Death sat opposite my desk and played ...

But I couldn't commit to the time. I needed to resuscitate my career.

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd keptit all this time. No matterwhat else happened, from ...

It's sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don't have to ever deal with ...

You're a real cowboy." He laughed. "You're just now realizing that?

Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both.

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then ...

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent ...

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, ...

Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children & battle addictions & as a result, face fears. Its not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's ...

So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

Periodic Wall of the Elements Q. What would happen if you made a periodic table out of cube-shaped bricks, where each brick was made of ...

To truly understand poetry one must understand themselves from within one's self.

I was an ugly baby. On my birth certificate there was a listing for Probable Cause.

Cherry blossoms are more beautiful when the blood of the dead stains the flowers from grass below.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a ...

It's quite a scary path to walk on,When you have no one's past experience to lean on, or learn from.It's all new and uncharted.But nothing ...

The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons ...

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you ...

Just a friendly warning: the forces of spiritual darness are nothing to trifle with. Vampires do exist, no matter what the so-called scientific minds might ...

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to ...

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van ...

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the ...

And boy, the transformation. I had to feel bad for him, inheriting a power like this. He had all of the ugly. All of it. ...

Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.

You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're ...

The joy of motherhood comes in moments ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to ...

When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you ...

Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.

Someday, of course, she would light out on her own, following her own riverbed, and though we'd follow as long as she allowed, and though ...

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our ...

A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret and ought not ...

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

He piled fib on top of lie on top of exaggeration and cemented it all with hyperbole.

God wants us to grow and achieve our potential.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands ...

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - ...

Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you - but rather - what you can do for your Joe Montaperto.

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the ...

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is ...

The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; ...

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

To attain the Self is indeed called the right belief (samkit).

Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

It was one of her delightful qualities; she wept with those who wept.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

The consumer gets the best deal when the product is cheapest, and the product is cheapest when people can freely compete in the market place.

It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. ...

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's ...

Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.

It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as ...

Despite his evasiveness and his determination to hew to a single message, Jobs was a vivid presence. The intensity of his self-confidence made me hang ...

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the ...