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- To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of…
- I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should…
- There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.
- You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font…
- Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.
- I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin…
- 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…
- At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.
- When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of…
- I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking…
- I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself,…
- I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really…
- I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that…
- We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend,…
- Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name…
- As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
- But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is…
- 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…
- I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot…
- I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that…
- Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,…
- Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any…
- One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
- Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
- Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle