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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.
Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.
What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar does later.
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.
Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.
It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.
It would be a miracle to solve this case. Luckily, I believed in miracles. No, wait, that was testicles. I believed in testicles.
I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.
I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.
I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.
If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.
Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices!
Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.
The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.
Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.
Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.
Every decision we make has to be evaluated in light of our life-changing commitment to being a servant of Christ and His kingdom.
I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.
His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.
This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.
I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.
I came to understand that Nic on drugs was not the Nic I knew and trusted. Nic on drugs was somebody else. We were afraid of him.
We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.
I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.
You cannot have chocolate without cacao. The cacao bean is chocolate. All chocolate contains at least some ground up cacao beans.
Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are
In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.
Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.
The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.
When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.
I am impressed with the natural health programs at Nature Care College. Their dedication to quality education is truly inspiring.