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And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.
Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.
Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world
Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.
In my home gym, I'll do targeted exercises like pilates, light weights and stretching.
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said. 'I daresay I'm not.
Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.
You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.
It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow
What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.
Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.
Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.
Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.
Highly sensitive people are often afraid to speak up, until life pushes them to do so.
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.
We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.
Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.
Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.