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Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.
The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or ...
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates ...
Love and kindness are the universal language of all creation.
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, ...
'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the ...
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Travis walked in, and froze in the doorway. "Wow.""You look amazing," he said as I slid on my heels.
If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be ...
Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms ...
At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life ...
- and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived a ...
Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy. I sometimes imagine God only knows what, that everyone is laughing at me, the entire world, and at such ...
I bow my knees and pray to God.
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they ...
We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.
I have no heart?Perhaps I have not;But then you're mad to take offenceThat I don't give you what I have not got:Use your own common ...
When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, ...
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 ...
Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.
More worryingly, my baby fangs were out, which usually happened only when I was perilously close to tipping over into Mr. Hyde territory. I quickly ...
It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play ...
What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It's cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more ...
True listening and understanding occurs only when the other person understands that you understand.
We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He ...
Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?
Every time you used, it was a risk searching for a high just like the first time, a high you would never find again.
Love is a lot like flowers. With enough effort and time, it can blossom into something beautiful and unforgettable. But with neglect and dispassion, it ...
I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying ...
You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because ...
Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.
There is one gift above all others that makes man unique among the animals, and it is the gift displayed everywhere here: his immense pleasure ...
If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage ...
One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive ...
When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is ...
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice ...
When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.
Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. ...
Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. ...
Running her fingers on the scales, she sighs. "I wonder what its like to be a human?""Why won't you just go and find out?" the ...
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
My unexpected trip to the light may have been cancelled, but here I was, still paying the cost of the return ticket
How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell,Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell.
As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they ...
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ...
Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel
Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly ...
Her smile and voice suggested the kind of excitement that comes when the first words in a long, silent relationship are spoken at last - ...
Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn't that there aren't any nice guys, ...
This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before that as a ...
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
As for knowing your own mind, this seemed a bewildering process. How could you know your own mind without using your mind to discover your ...
You have something called "determination." so as long as you hold on... so as long as you do what's in your heart... i believe you ...
Love and Trust God, It's a life time commitment!!!
At last she sighed.But the most wretched thing - is it not? - is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our ...
Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what's being presented - challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That ...
Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without ...
And thus, instead of a mere record of a revelation given in the past, we have the ever-living word of God; instead of a mere ...
If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could ...
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim ...
The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred ...
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 can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for ...
Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both ...
In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.
I feel lost and confused, but happy and certain. I am like a ball of tangled yarn. The parts that are untangled are available, useable; ...
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we ...
Secrets are like scars. The cut may no longer be there, but the scar's white line tells a story. Unless you share it, it's like ...
He looked closely. It was very disconcerting to have your gay unicorn best friend studying your penis that intensely. Finally, he gave his verdict. "It's ...
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.
Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no ...
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action ...
We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their ...
In the immediate aftermath of the crash, a young police officer named Pat McCann, who happened to be training at the airport that day, saw ...
May you find much more grace for everyday life.
What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] ...
Everyone says I am an otaku, but recently everyone is an otaku, even if they just have a hobby. If someone says they are an ...
This is where my heart is. I was human when my heart was stolen by him,and I was human when I longed to be by ...
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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 ...
Hey, Noah?""Yes?" he says sweetly."Why do you call me Snowflake?"He steps closer and runs one finger along my cheek, making my skin tingle in its ...
I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, ...
God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
I'm NOT used to it! But ... I'm not as scared as I was before. Getting rejected is painful, but there are also people who ...
His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social ...
You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.
When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations.
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe ... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser ...
Coincidences are like unicorns.you can believe in them all you want,but that doesn't make them real
LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of ...
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.
Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so ...
Digital Masters spend time understanding customer behavior and designing the customer experience from the outside in. A Digital Master figures out what customers do and ...