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Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.
The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.
If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.
MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?
You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.
Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.
Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what.
Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.
To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.
I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.
I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.
Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
Getting married is a serious matter for a girl; not getting married is even more serious.
Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.
Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.
If I can't have my own mate and my own children, then I can at least have my own kingdom.
Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.
And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently, and your life will change.
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.
I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.
There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'
The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.
Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.
Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."
Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.
I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.