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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.
Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.
Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.
The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.
But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.
Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.
and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.
I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.
He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.
All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.