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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.
Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."
What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?
Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?
How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.
Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.
You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.
You’re a terrible liar, Sage, but I’m still touched you’d attempt it for my sake. A for effort.
Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.
Most people are far more prone to let the bad experiences shape their views than the good ones.
The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.
Every year I want to experience something that makes me say, "this is the best day of my life."
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.
Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.
Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar.
If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why.
If you want to interest people, make them think. If you want to inspire people, make them feel.
If you're always doing what you've always done, you'll never see (or become) what you could be!
It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.
She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.
Screw you, John." "Sorry, Sylvie. Can't—they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.
My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.
I lived, while 1 1/2 million Jewish children died. So I have an obligation to repair the world.
What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest.
Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
Only with the death it comes what's new, if the germen doesn't die, the plant will not be born.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.