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It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.
A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.
I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.
Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.
Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.
Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.
The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
The strongest inpression remaining with me after watching the wolves...was their friendliness towards each other.
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.
May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.
Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.
In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.
Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.
I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
But Hale wasn't just a member of her crew who had messed up. He was Hale. Her Hale. And Kat just wanted him back.
If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.