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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.
The best narcissists can block things out and act like nothing ever happened to just keep going.
I try to have all my songs relatable for my daughter in a fun and upbeat way that has a meaning.
If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.
Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.
Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.
If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?
Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.
If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.
The dream appears to be real. It does really seem we are here in this world; but this is not so.
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.
Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.
Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.
My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?
Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.
Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind.
It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.
You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.
Think of what you love most in this world. This is what you will come back to in your next life.
Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.