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You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.
The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .
Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.
Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people
Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.
All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.
The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.
Most of the time, stuff doesn't just happen to us-we make it happen by what we do and the way we are.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.
See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.
I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.
Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.
The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.
Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you.
Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.
I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
Cooling bodies gravitate and heat as they gravitate-heating bodies radiate, and cool as they radiate.
Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.