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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.
Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.
Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.
If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.
There is not a single one of us with a job that is not completely reliant in some way shape or form on others.
Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.
Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.
There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.
Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.
My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
I do not give up, I never give up, for there is nothing in this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable.
I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.
I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.
Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.
I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.
I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.
We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!
Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.
The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.
The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.
Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.
When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.
The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.
Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!
One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.