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People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.
I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.
The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.
There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!
We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.
That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.
Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.
The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.
I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?
Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.
In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.
Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.
What's possible today isn't bound by what was possible yesterday, and is never a measure of what's possible tomorrow.
Stay in one place too long and the tide can overwhelm you. Ride the tide, surf the waves, stay on top of the changes.
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.
It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.
My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.
...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red.
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.
I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."
Somebody'll be me, tomorrow or whenever. I've been doing this awhile. My time's limited. I've been doing this awhile.
A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.
When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.
Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.
The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.