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- Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
- The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
- I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that.…
- My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand…
- April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
- Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an…
- A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn…
- But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming…
- A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention…
- Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
- There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness…
- Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We…
- Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that…
- One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because…
- But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't…
- We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we…
- That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands…
- Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and…
- There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always…
- People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle