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Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.
There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.
It's important to come to know that this is all there is. There isn't something to attain, there is only something to be.
When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.
Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.
Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.
The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.
There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.
Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.
If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.
You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.
Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.
I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.
If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.
The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family.
I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]
Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.
With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!
If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more!
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.
People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially...just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.
As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.