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Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.
A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.
You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.
Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.
Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.
When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.
How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?
Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.
When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is actually a serial killer.
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.
Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.
Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.
For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism.
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.
...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.
One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.
One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.
Drama in our lives is the greatest indicator that we're not focused on meaningful goals. On the path to purpose you don't have time for drama.
The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.