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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.
A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.
I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.
Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.
Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.
Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.
Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.
To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.
They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.
The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists
I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.
The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.
How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.
When we radiate the warmth of our love-energy, our compassion-energy on the planet, we shine the qualities of our Source!
Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. It's a negotiation tool.
People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.
A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.
Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.
To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.
It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.