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Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.
If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.
Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.
Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.
What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.
He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.
It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.
If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.
We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
When we align our lives with spiritual laws, challenges remain, but we can approach them with arms open wide, ready to dance.
I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.
Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.
I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.
You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.
A guy in an SUV tried to kill me.” “That’s strange.” “Why?” “Because the guy I hired doesn’t drive an SUV.” “That is strange.
My mother told me, “Son, it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.” I have tried very hard to heed those words.
When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.
Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!
In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.
I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need to just keep making albums?'
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.
No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.
I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.
There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.
It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.
It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.