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Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.
The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
Camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus
Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.
Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.
Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.”
I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
Now i no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.
Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.
Just trusting the soul cannot lead you to higher consciousness. You have to pay attention for the beautification of your heart.
Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.
All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.
If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.
I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.
Whatever you believe, you will find that you are correct. The Universe has a way of presenting to you exactly what you believe.
It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.