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Think of it as a second opinion on his value. If he wasn't worth the fight, wouldn't she just let him go? Wouldn't you?
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.
The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.
I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.
I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.
What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.
Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.
It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with.
Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over.
There's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.
The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.
Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.
Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.
So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.
A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.
You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
It's never wise to laugh at things you don't understand...If you're not careful, they might start laughing back at you.
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.
Cacao has great nutritional value, a lot of protein, which strengthens a person, and without sugar it is not fattening.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.