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Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.
The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose.
I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.
The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.
Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.
Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I’m afraid of landing. [He’s laughing, and I’m smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know what comes next?
Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.
Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.
Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
Germany must continue to champion the world's biggest free single market, and under its leadership, the EU can overcome its internal differences.
Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it.
I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.
The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.
the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.
Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.
Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.
going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.
The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.
Wouldn't you say that most of us are a reflection of or a reaction to the people who have been closest to us? I'm a reflection of my grandmother.
The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.