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How good it would be to make my own decisions; if only I knew how to.
Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and ...
A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.
The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build ...
I had a thought.""God help us," Ty said under his breath.
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the ...
His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.
Not every story started off big enough to notice.
We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.
A coward's heart is no prize, but the man of valor deserves his shining helmet.
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds ...
Allan Emmanuelle Karlsson closed his eyes and felt perfectly convinced that he would now pass away for ever. It had been exciting, the entire journey, ...
That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.
Don't be fooled into thinking that love is special. That it'll fill you up forever. Anyone can fall in love, but only you can make ...
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
I must say ... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.
Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do ...
They've spent so long at the top, protected and isolated, that they've forgotten they can fall. Their strength has become their weakness.
A real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm ... I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness.
Don't say it. Don't say nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. Don't tell me it doesn't matter because it does. And don't ...
Love everyone like a flower loves the world.
I'm really sick of people calling us insane.-Brianna Miller
Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.
The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.
You'll get through this. The way I see it, young women give mistakes too much power. It's not our mistakes that bring us down, but ...
A lot of kids think high school represents the best years of their lives, but others recognize that it's mostly irrelevant bullshit, and that life ...
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any ...
The skeleton of success is self-discipline
Very strange!" he said to himself, vacantly. "It's like a scene in a novel - it's like nothing in real life." He
Work is dignity.
I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to ...
Here was a place sacred to the dead, who were not the living ceased, but almost another species, requiring rites and prayers that belonged uniquely ...
In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the ...
Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent ...
Never be picky and choosy about means of escaping disembowelment, or waste your time trying to find reasons for the persecution you're a victim of. ...
Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him.
It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny
I don't want to be just a voice on the phone.I have to get to know these guys face-to-face and develop a sincere relationship.That way, ...
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
I have more folds than an origami convention.
A full stomach allows the brain to be hungry for common sense.
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and ...
I didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly ...
Take a one way trip down to Larry Land!
So, your dad's hot.""Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.
Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.
There are also dozens and dozens of success stories; many couples have emailed me with their original posts. I love reading these stories, but confess ...
When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles,When the time comes to embrace for one long last while,We can laugh about ...
Tune in, turn on, and drop out.
When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff ...
A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy ...
The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing.
For my soul lies dormant, restless, waiting for that moment when shackles are cast aside and it is free to fly once more.
Prayer ... panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.
You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!
The city of 500,000 is wedged between a granite spine of mountains zigzagging up and down the coast and the Sea of Japan, which Koreans ...
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
In your anger, zip your lips!
The beauty of the human race is not in its victory over evil, but the attempt.
The nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
2"Speak to the entire assembly of Israela and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God,b am holy.
To settle for anything less than a true, glorious, exalted vision of God is utterly stupid and utterly sinful.
Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity.
It flashed as a guiding light whilstDuran was lost in his dreams
As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.
I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.
I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever be. And then ...
You can't fool people into loving you.
The Word says that if we have a faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains. And yet, we limit what God ...
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for ...
That's what I want them to know. Saying thank you, when you really mean it, when you remember what someone done for you
An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or ...
Growth always and only results from a willingness to change one's thinking and entertain a different point of view.
If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.
I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for ...
A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is ...
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
To us, innovation entails both the production and implementation of novel and useful ideas.
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
Widows don't accidentally flash their underwear at anyone.
Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat.
Including a mention of your impressive record ... The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja.
Nemo Me Impugn Lacessit - No One Assails Me with Impunity. Or the alternative version - Do Not Fuck with Us or We Will Hurt ...
That illusion of young romantic love to which women look forever forward and forever back.
And i can't get you out of my head,how in the world will i beginto let you walk right out my lifeand blow my heart ...
A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.
As a prayer popper, I stay in touch with God. I send lots of spiritual postcards. Little bits and bytes of adoration, supplication, and information ...
I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.
Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to ...
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who ...
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.