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The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.
While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.
There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be all of the energy to do whatever you want to do.
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
You are an incredible child of God having a dream that you are a human being on a tiny planet in the middle of nowhere.
Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.
You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.
Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?
"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.
If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel
Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.
Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.