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People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.
First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.
I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.
We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.
Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.
I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.
To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.
When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.
The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s.
Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.
Because I still love him. You can't just turn love off. You still feel it.
In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?
I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses
In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.
Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.
..just do, leave it there, if it comes let it come, but don't look for it.
Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!
Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.
Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out
Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.
Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.
The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.
This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.
You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita.
The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.
When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.
You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.
Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.