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Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.
I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others.
Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.
I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.
It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it.
I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Toughness isn't about you and what you want, it's about not quitting because others need you.
For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.
I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.'
Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on the world of beauty around us.
When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.
We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.
Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.
We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.
Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.
Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.
I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.
What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.
For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.
Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.