Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

I will feel like a success if I raise my children to be kind and happy people.

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.

I've missed you, too, Graystripe. I watch over you, every day and every night.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

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