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You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.
I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.
Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.
Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.
It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.
Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.
I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.
As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.
I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.
I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.
Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.
If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.
Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.
I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!
A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!
A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!
Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!
Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten.
Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!
The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!
When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!
While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.
It is impossible that a fish doesn't carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!
If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!
If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!
I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.
Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.
My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures.
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia