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Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.
The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.
The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life
We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.
He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.
We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.
I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.
Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.
We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
Your Life is always a result of your thoughts about it-including your obviously creative thought that you seldom get what you choose.
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.
Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.
If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.
Don't worry about your future. God knows you completely, accepts you unconditionally and loves you wholeheartedly. You can trust Him.
Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect!
If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.
You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it.
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.
Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.
Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.