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It's foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.
If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
You keep life on a short leash.” “What’s that supposed to mean?” “You’re scared of what you can’t control.
I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.
Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.
When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.
It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.
Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.
To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.
We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.
There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.
I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.
It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
We make our own choices, and then we present the matter to the Lord and get his approving, ratifying seal.
Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
Keep your eyes on Christ, not the circumstances you find yourself in or the feelings you are experiencing.
Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys
Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
Consider it a race to see who kills you first, Daylighter-Valentine, the other Downworlders, or the Clave.
One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.
Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself
All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.
If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.
No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend." "We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested
Yes," said Will, "you two don't seem to have much in common, save for a penchant for demon women and evil.
Charlotte, Will’s being vexing.' 'And the sun has come up in the east,' said Jem, to no one in particular.