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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.
intuition is always right in at least two important ways; It is always in response to something. it always has your best interest at heart
Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.
Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.
I love a good worst-case scenario. My brain just kind of works that way. I like that idea of how much a person can get away with, and why.
History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.
Share your stories of your worst moments as well as your best. Let your sisters know their problems are not unique and they are not alone.
The more we practice risking to leap, the more proficient we become, the more our fears melt away, and we grow ever stronger in the doing.
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.
The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.
You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.
When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
I have four kids in a private school who have not yet entered college. Their tuition is what keeps me motivated. Life is simple sometimes.
We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.
Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.
Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.
If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.
Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.
What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.
Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.