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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.
I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.
I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.
Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.
I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.
I know the pride of carrying our nation's flag abroad - and I have felt the grief of burying too many friends beneath that flag at home.
although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.
You know how I feel about you, Bluefur. I'd do my best to make you happy, I promise. And I'll love your kits as though they were my own.
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.
And I realize now that that was . . . that’s the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you’re loved, let it wash over you
The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.
Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.
You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.
Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."
God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.
Going home, it's what everybody's trying to do from the day they're born to the day they die, but going home together - that's marriage.
Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.
I actually just keep things very professional. I don't need acceptance from anyone but God, so that's just kind of where I focus it all.
You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
no one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.
I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.