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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.
The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.
A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.
Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways
To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.
Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.
Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself.
What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters
Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.
This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.
In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.
Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.
Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.
That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.
I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.
God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.
Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!
Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.
The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?
Getting into heaven has nothing to do with what we do for Christ, but rather what He has already done for us.
The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.