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Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.
We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.
I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.
Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.
I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.
Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.
I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow
Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress
To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming
Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.
Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.
People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
There is nothing that impairs a man's sexual performance quicker than any suggestion that he's not doing it right ('Not there, you idiot!').
The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.
The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.
The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.
The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.
It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.
The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.
The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!
The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.
[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.
Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.
The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.