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Everyone has to have a spirituality and everyone does have one, either a life-giving one or a destructive one.
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other ...
You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact ...
Surviving, that's my plan.
As an author, I'd rather by read than rich
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language ... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.
I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all ...
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you ...
What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
I may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja.
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture ... needs to mirror that complexity in every ...
To write good SF today ... you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange ...
Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with ...
I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal.
I taste the honey from a flower named BlueWay down in CaliforniaAnd New York drowns as we held hands
I want to make sure all Minnesotans have the opportunity to experience prosperity.
On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We ...
When you open yourself up to people, you let the bad in with the good. I can't promise I won't ever hurt you, Rowen. But ...
It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but ...
Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable ...
So you're telling me that intoxicated cowboy is my best hope of getting to Paint River Ranch tonight?"The bartender gave a sympathetic shrug. "Yep. And ...
You're wrestling seven days a week for four months straight. It's a great way to learn.
People need to realize that only what is done for Christ will count. Life is short, and we need to be sure we are burning ...
Welcome to We Day! Since last year, WE have volunteered over 1.7 million hours of our time!
I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.
Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.
Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.
What the hell? I asked. Is this daring escape being sponsored by Honda?
The Boogeyman,' he said, just to be sure. 'The Boogeyman killed an employee of the President of the United States.'The president nodded.Some days, Zach thought, ...
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable ...
When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
Don't sit with your back to any doors.
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
The soul is / proprioceptive
The parts of our lives that take the most work are the most worth it.
I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.
I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
He smiled, a real one this time, though his voice remained teasing. "So, what do you think I am?" Naive, I thought at once. Naive, ...
I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of ...
There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.
Sometimes the words left unspoken are the most important ones that should have been said much earlier to avoid the consequences of the destiny.
TEAMWORK ... means never having to take all the blame yourself.
Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, ...
It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always ...
We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way.
I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.
When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I ...
And maybe there is greatness waiting for you - if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.
You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.You who'd be wiseshould inquire into the nature of justice and evilfrom ...
Read in oreder to live
Let's chow, and then we'll get our books," Tony said. Just as the door was about to close behind us, he added, "You act like ...
All learning is ultimately self-learning.
Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to ...
Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things ...
Look at where I landed, you would think I planned it. I'm just doin me and you can never understand it.
There's no need for chains. I can still take you until you're begging for more.
The depth of one's grief equals the depth of one's love.
How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.
When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.
God has blessed the vale of Kashmir with grace and grandeur. It is a land of lush green meadows, crystal clear springs and lakes, the ...
If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will ...
Through the windshield Isaw the mark of theseghettos - the abundance ofbeauty shops, churches,liquor stores, andcrumbling housing - and Ifelt the old fear. Throughthe windshield ...
The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah ...
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account ...
Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said ... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.
I hate watching stand-ups.
Once an asshole, always an asshole.
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
I love that sassy name! Zoozle!
In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
You don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? ... As far as ...
Here. Here he was bound to seem absurd. He
It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him ...
There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.
I don't really want to just play the girlfriend or the love interest. I get so many scripts like that, and - not to moan, ...
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that ...
Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.
Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you.
During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.
Holden always found it strangely disconcerting when an exaggerated Texas drawl came from someone his brain said should be speaking with Punjabi accents. And
What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union ...
We live today in cities and suburbs whose form and character we did not choose. They were imposed upon us, by federal policy, local zoning ...
Mary Oliver: "...Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ("The Summer Day", New and Selected Poems, ...
That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.
There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death ...