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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion
Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.
Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.
The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.
Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.
Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.
I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.
Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.
The most recent studies both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic — something determined at conception.
General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.
Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it." "You'd be surprised how many people don't.
Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?
I could take care of that obstacle for her - I'd tear down anything standing between us - but I couldn't destroy what I couldn't even see.
All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people’s. Like they weren’t just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.
She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.
Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.
Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.
To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.
Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different
Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.