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Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.
The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.
Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.
When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't.
What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around. “Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
You cannot breathe deeply and worry at the same time. Breathe. Let the worry go. Breathe. Allow the love and intuition in.
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
Central heating is my vice - I have it on a bit too much as I am always cold. I try to make up for it in other green ways.
Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.
Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.
Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.
They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.
Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?
I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.
As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.
Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.
Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end.
The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.
You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.
It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.
you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.
Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.
Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
Do you wake up in the morning and first thing, centre yourself by looking at your palms together? Thereby have a nice day.
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.
The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.
God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.
All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.
This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.
If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity.
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.
A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.
There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.