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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.
The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.
Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.
For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.
Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.
The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.
Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.
Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
I am a big fan of Bournemouth, having enjoyed many happy hours on its sandy beach and crazy golf course.
I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God.
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.