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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.
She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.
And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?
Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.
You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.
Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.
Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.