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Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here.
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.
It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.
My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable
Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
God does not show us the whole way but only the next step. His promise is, "I will counsel you with my eye upon you".
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.
I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.
I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.