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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.
I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.
When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.
The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.
I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.
Three young cats with starlight in their eyes and the whisper of ancient wind in their fur." -Rock, Cats of the Clans
I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.
Two people look at the same Exercise above: One sees "Opportunity Is Nowhere" and one sees "Opportunity Is Now Here."
Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.
The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.
Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.
Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.
The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.
Everything that you have done has led up to what you are now. Everything you do now will lead up to what you will be.
There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.
If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.
Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.