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If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.
Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.
Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.
Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.
Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.
If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.
remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.