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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.
We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.
and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.
I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.
I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you are becoming less like Him. There is no neutral position in the Lord.
If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?
You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?
If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.
That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.
School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.
This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.
A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.
Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm.
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.