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The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual freedom]
Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office.
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.
Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.
Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.
I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong.
The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.
It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.
For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept
Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.
Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
The age of the universe is not just 'a guess', but rather it is a carefully measured number that is now known to a high degree of accuracy.
Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties she’s got on.
When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.
Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.
Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are.
If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.
Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.
Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.
While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.
The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.
Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.
I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.
It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.
Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.
My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.
True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.
A reverse mortgage is available to anyone who is at least 62 years old and owns a home outright, or has a small mortgage balance remaining.