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Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.
Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.
What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.
There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.
You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.
They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
...five minutes from now, when everything else had dropped away and I realized the full impact of what I’d done, I’d feel my heart breaking.
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.
Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.