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however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining
Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.
God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.
An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.
Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.
Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning.
I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon.
Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.
And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...
The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.
The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen.
It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.
Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.
For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.
Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.
When we dream with the courage of our soul, we dream sacred dreams - fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and courage to act.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.