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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
You pray. And you allow the Lord to be your strength. Remember the Lord doesn't give you strength. He is your strength.
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.
Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.
I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.
People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.
It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.
I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.
You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115
I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.
Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.
But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.
If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.
There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.
Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.
If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.
What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.
The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.
All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.