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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.
I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.
Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.
Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.
Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.
Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.
An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.
I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.
Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.
Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.
Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.
The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.