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We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be.
If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.
Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.
The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.
Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.
Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.
If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
I believe I can solve others' problems. It's great when it works, but for the most part, it's very unappealing.
Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death
Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
There are many who would take my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them.
To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.
The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.
Love the hair. Love when it’s out of control. It’s like seeing a side of you that needs to come out more often.
Your name?” I repeated, hoping it was my imagination that my voice faltered. “Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me