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- Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures…
- To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we…
- They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
- Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls…
- It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things…
- Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a…
- Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess…
- All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like…
- This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
- All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what…
- I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published…
- All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and…
- Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy…
- The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who…
- All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed…
- Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages…
- All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm,…
- Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
- Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
- I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And…
- No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get…
- You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories,…
- If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
- You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle