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You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.
Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.
With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.
Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.
I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.
Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless
The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys.
I love cooking for men and making love with them'not just reproductive lovemaking but I like sex for the sake of freaking out with men.
Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.
As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.
Oompa-Loompa Land?” He shook his head. “No way. Orange people give me the creeps. I don’t even like fake tans. I’d never be their king.
The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.
While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.
I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.
Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.
Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that." "Then I refuse to understand," she said.
I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.
A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.
Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.
Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!
Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.
Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.
The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?
Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.