By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

Devotion to God is studying him in every aspect; serving God is teaching what you know of Him to others.

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Sometimes people say,' One day you are going to look back at this and laugh.' My question is:' Why wait?

Remember, it's your own body, your own brain. You're not a victim of the universe, you are the universe.

We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

Donʹt worry now about what you canʹt change. Rest when you can so youʹll be ready for tomorrowʹs battles

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

What's purple mean?" Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

When I accomplish a challenging goal it is one of the most powerful and wonderful feelings in the world.

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.

Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

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