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The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.
Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.
We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.
I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.
I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.
Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.
Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do. It's time to face your fears and take action. Expect Miracles.
When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy.
First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.
It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?
True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.
Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.
In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
Yes, I'm back," he said, "And look who I ran into." Horace grinned at him. "i hope you ran into him hard." "As hard as I could.
Bro, it's dark. You can't go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven't you ever seen a horror movie?
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.
Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.
You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.
Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.
Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.
A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.