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I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.
I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.
Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.
It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
Try to see things differently - It's the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life.
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.
When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.
There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.
Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.
What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.
Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.
We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.
[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.
Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.
I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.