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Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.
I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
If you feel lonely within your relationship, pay attention to this inner warning signal!
Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.
The angels love us. And it's their assignment. They are direct, pure emissaries for God.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.
Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.
It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.
Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty.
Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.
To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.
Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.
Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.
Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.
If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.