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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.
In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.
Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.
Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.
It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.
People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.
If you aren't free to protect yourself when the government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you're not free at all.
My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.
William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.
People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!
Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.
The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.
Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.