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Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.
Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.
Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.
Veterinarians are essential allies to the millions of us who experience the human-animal bond.
I'm grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.
I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.
The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.
It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.
There is no room for anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, and the leaders need to show that.
It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.
When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.
Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
When you feel good, you're allowing good. When you don't feel good, you are not allowing good.
It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.
The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.
A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.
So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.
but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.