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I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.
Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
You can be who you will,” he repeated. His voice softened. “And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.
Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.
We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.
The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.
The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.
Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.
I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.
I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.
Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace
Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.
Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.
The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.
So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all.
The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.
I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.
Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.
It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating. - Sara
In what twisted universe would a girl who's just been dumped still want to be friends with the boy who dumped her?
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.
The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.
Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.