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As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.
The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.
Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.
You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!
'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.
Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est
For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.
Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.
I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.
What was that?" Jace said. "Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.
Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.
-Nunca dejaría de creer en ti -dijo-. Jamás. Lo que siento por ti...-Se atracó-. Es lo más grande que he sentido en mi vida. [pp.78]
Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.
My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - " "I am NOT naming our child Buford.
Hiding here, are you? That’s awkward.” “Why?” “Because I had intended to hide here myself.” “You may hide here with me, if you wish.
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.
Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.
Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.
The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.
I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.
There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.” I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.
Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.
It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.
It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.
At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.