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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.
I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday.
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.
I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.
Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.
It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.
Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'
Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.
I'm not the type to demand affirmation or to worry that I'll be forgotten. I'm more the type to dare the world to forget me.
A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.
But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.
Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.
Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.
If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.
Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive!
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.
They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.
Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.
Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.
By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.