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Democrats believe that when more people vote, it's not just good for our party; it's good for democracy.
You are perfect, whole and complete. You needn't add anything to yourself to experience your true power.
I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.
You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate
The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty.
One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.
Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.
People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!
If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.
The freedoms we have enjoyed in America - and spread around the world - are incredibly fragile freedoms.
I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
I am proud of my children. They will make great warriors. And I will watch over them forever. I promise.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.
Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.
You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.
Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.