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Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.
And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.
Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Beware Okonkwo!" she warned. "Beware of exchanging words with Agbala. Does a man speak when a god speaks? Beware!
A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.
If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.