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To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.
Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.
But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.
One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.
I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.
Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another
There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.
The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.
I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions.
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.
My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.
Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.
We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.
Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.
Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities.
Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.
There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!
If you were fit before your pregnancy, a Pilates program will quickly help restore your figure and your energy.
Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.
You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable
Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.
I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.
Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?
...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.
To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair
The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.