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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.
Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.
Angus looked at Hamish. "I hate it when Mom and Dad fight." Hamish smoothed his brother's messy hair. "Me too.
We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.
The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.
That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.
And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.
Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.
When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.
When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.
I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.
I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.
You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge.
Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.
I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.
Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.
I believe the stars can affect human lives, particularly by providing employment for thousands of astrologers.
I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.
I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two.
Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.
It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.
I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?