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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony.
I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.
You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.
We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.
If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
No other person ever has, or ever will have, the unique blend of talents, strengths, and perspective that you have.
I've always been a multi-passionate woman, so my passion for business existed right alongside my passion for dance.
All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.
The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant
In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too.
The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.
Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.
A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.
The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.
On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.
I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.
It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.
Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.
Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.