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Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.
To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.
So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
The truth can set us free, but only if we're always in the process of discovering it.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you're thinking too small.
Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
Free Yourself helps you learn to tenderly hold your heart with your own loving hands.
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
Just go with it', he thought. 'You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear'.
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.
I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.
You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.
I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping.
Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.
Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.
Awwww, lame, we're not going to disneyworld. (said by the amazing talking dog, Total)
Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.
The time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love.
If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.
Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it.
Riley. How bad has it been?" "Just fabulous. The demonic kitten really made my night.
Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.
I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.
When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.
There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.
Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.
I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.