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The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.
The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.
When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness
True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.
All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.
Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.
When you eat foods high in fiber, you feel full faster, making you less likely to overeat and more likely to have weight loss.
Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.
But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.
Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.
One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.
One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we're not relying on outsiders.
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.
The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.
I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful.
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher… the world.
No one could tell me where my soul might be; I searched for God but he eluded me; I sought my brother out and found all three.
Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.
Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.
Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.