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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.
It is INCONSISTENT to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not Gods intention to heal.
Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.
The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.
I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.
The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.
She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.
You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.
We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.
Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.
We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.” “So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.
It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings" -Tessa gray
It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.
Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.
Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
Energy is a state of mind. Tell yourself you're tired and you will be. Tell yourself you feel great and you will
When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.
It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.
In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act.
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
Now that I've met you and spoken to you and felt you and tasted you, I'm done. That's it. You're the end for me.