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You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts.
Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you can think into existence are unlimited.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.
We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.
We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.
Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical.
I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.
The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.
I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool.
Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.
living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.
It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.
Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.
There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.
"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
How many fingers am I holding up?" he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, "Avocado.