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At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.
You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.
Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.
Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.
If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.
African society and culture varies much more than European society but it's just considered 'Africa' as if they are all the same.
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.
While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.
Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.
Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.
Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.
Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.
I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been.
The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.
For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.
A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.
In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.
It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.
Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?
I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.
It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother
You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.
[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.
One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.
She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.
I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.