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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.
At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.
I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.
We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.
We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.
Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.
Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.
The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.
It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.
I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.
There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.
What you are doesn't matter. Because what you are isn't going to change who you are.
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.
A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?
Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.
Magnus reached out to touch Alec, but Alec moved away. Magnus' hand fall to himself.
I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-
Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night." -Jace, pg.283-
You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors,” Magnus said cheerfully.
It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.
oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.
All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.
Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.
[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.
The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.
It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.
Sometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons.
I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
We must treat others as if they matter, as if they are worthy of care and attention.
Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.
Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.
A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.
I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism
I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.