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- To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes…
- Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your own life are…
- So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they…
- Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
- Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of…
- I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your…
- I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with…
- When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my…
- Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking…
- Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great…
- Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and…
- We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the…
- The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item…
- When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs…
- Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
- I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering…
- in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and…
- Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones…
- The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients…
- Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you…
- When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with…
- Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that…
- My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and…
- My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She…
- Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong