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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.
The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.
I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit.
When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.
A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
Stay for me. Stay with me. There will never be anyone else. Not in my bed. Not in my life. And not in my heart.
Leave the door open," my dad said, the second most common warning in his arsenal. Right behind, "Nash, go home.
Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.
The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.
He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.
Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face. It started to devour her face, too. Cath had to look away.
The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.
I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.
... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.
Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.
The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.
If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell.
It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.
If she just wanted to come home at night to eye candy with good hair, I could probably be that reasonably well.