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Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything to get in your way.
You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality.
We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.
You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.
Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away.
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.
I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.
if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.
Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.
We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.
I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.
The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.
It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree
At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.
I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.
Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart!
No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.
Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.
I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.
It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.