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Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.
In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo.
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.
I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.
When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.
Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.
When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.
Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.
We're not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don't want to go through anything Jesus went through!
When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.
Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.
If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures.
Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task is nearly finished.
Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.
You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.
The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.
That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.
I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.
I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.
Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.
You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.
I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska
weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.
Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.
I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.
Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.