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Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.
Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.
We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Although his time is not always our time, we can be sure that the lord keeps his promises.
The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.
If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.
What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.
Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
If you think that you are less than them, can you blame them for thinking they are better?
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.
People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.
People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.
I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.
I think the deepest belief I have . . . is that love really is the answer to all problems.