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Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.
Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.
The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.
This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.
It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!
You'll find that there will be an investment for every season, but there will be no investment for all seasons.
It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.
You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.
Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.
A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.
If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.
Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.
I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.
For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.