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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.
Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.
Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.
My first husband dragged me out of London and made me live in the suburbs in Surrey - not where you want to be when you're 23.
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones
Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone." "Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.
I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.
My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.
The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.
Magnetizing things to ourselves is a natural process, but what are we magnetizing towards ourselves, is what we're giving out.
I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.
I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.
Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.
Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.
Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality.
Part of the fun of writing is having messages. Without them, it's all gunfights and car chases, and none of it means anything.
No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.
Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.
Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.
You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.
The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.
To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.
You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them.
Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone, like I do.
Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits.
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.