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I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six minutes.
Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.
"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."
'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.
Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
When God wants to accomplish something, He calls dedicated men and women to challenge His people and lead the way
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.
Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.
There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.
The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.
We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.
Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.
When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!