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How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.
Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.
You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.
Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark.
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
Letting go of the need to control things doesn’t mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.
Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.
There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.
In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.
You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.
I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.