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Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive.
I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."
[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.
If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.
If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.
A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?
When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.
Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others.
Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.
Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.
Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.
In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said. "Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.
Fear of God and love for God coexist happily in the heart of people who are rightly related to Him.
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.
Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?
Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.
The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.
I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.