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Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Angry people attract angry people and live in an angry world and this validates their opinion that the world is angry.
Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!
Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.
He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.
I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.
If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence
We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.
If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.
We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.
I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.
The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.
Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity
The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.
Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence.
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the person I once was.
Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular.
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.