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Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.
Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2).
The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.
Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.
When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.
There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.
Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!
Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.
If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.
Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.
I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.
I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
It`s important to have a relationship with God. He's the only one that can get down inside of you and heal what needs to be healed inside.
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
There’s no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.
Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.
When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?
During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton
At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.
We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.
When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?
Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.
We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.