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You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.
The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.
To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the ...
I wish we could wash from our hearts and souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make ...
Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken ...
Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.
I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since ...
My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.
But the man of independent feeling, except he be thus your friend, will not unlikely resent your compassion, while the beggar will accept it chiefly ...
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them ...
I want to move past my own unkindness with love, and know the reckless love of Jesus, and extend that love - that unconditional, always-believing-the-best, ...
Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
What is a bow and arrow? It is the beginning of the end. It is the winding path that grows to the roaring road of ...
I'm not the type that would ask for a number or ask him on a date, but I have approached a guy. I probably would ...
I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!
You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.
Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way ...
I think that all filth is local ... and that a joke isn't a joke unless it's at somebody's expense
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against ...
To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, ...
All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so ...
I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.
I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
AS A CHILD, I had an unquenchable thirst for novels," said Jane,
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.
People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right ...
A man, as he ages, is ready for his pipe and slippers by the fire. A woman becomes an unstoppable force.
Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.
What is the greatest weakness? 'Egoism'. No matter how virtuous one may be, as long as the egoism is present; it is all useless. A ...
Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own ...
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest ...
Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.
There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect!
I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There ...
How impossible, how utterly absurd it would be for the disciplesthese disciples, such men as these!to try and become the light of the world! No, ...
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.
Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. ...
Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!
Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide ...
FACT: The black family (and the black male/black female relationship) was systematically DESTROYED by over 500 years of institutionalized slavery, racism, and racist media stereotypes. ...
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
Twitter is the world.
It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by ...
And so now, under a Colorado sky so blue it hurt my eyes, we arrived at the terrible truth. You can plot your escape, you ...
I've never thought about dying, But dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I ...
I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was.
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' ...
Dont lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything.
The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude.
When you are living in the present moment, you will experience a deep sense of inner joy, peace and awareness.
Your kids don't need more things. They need you. And they want you. The more time that you can spend with them, the more they ...
Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's been a very ...
I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public ...
People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have ...
Having studied the toxic biological effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation, I find it amazing that women will willfully strap on two radio frequency ...
No shit. If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms, do me a favor and shoot ...
The precision of the creator's natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction ...
My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So ...
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals have been the ...
Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his actions with women - as well as with other ...
Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgements,And should give certain judgement what they see;But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wondersOf common things, which ...
He wears jeans, untucked shirts, and a Glock 19, and he has a big shaggy dog named Bob.
If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating ...
My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.
The ones who fight each other because of their own beliefs are like specks of dirt fighting each other about the nature of their world, ...
The queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to ...
Would you shake hands with the monster that lives in your closet?
I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is ...
The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.
We'll either come to a mutual understanding of one another, or he's going to kill me and chop me up into tiny pieces and bake ...
Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the ...
We don't like things that we cannot comprehend well or control.
There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.
Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does ...
Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land ...
YOU HAVE TO BE BOSS, AND NEVER LOSE YOUR STRENGTH TO A WEAKLING!
So many people, my friends and family, were all saying, "You're so funny. Why don't you become a comedian or an actor?" But it wasn't ...
Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.
Before you can speak the truth with your lips you must know truth in your heart.Psalm 15:2
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
He yawned again, this time very loudly, and lazily opened his eyes."I'm sorry I woke you up," she said quickly."Was I sleeping?"She nodded."So there really ...
After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to ...