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If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.
the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?
The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.
Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.
We need a modern government that allows people to do more on-line instead of making them wait in line.
Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.
I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.
Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.
The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.
If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.