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21,700 | <|endoftext|>soul: Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.<|endoftext|> |
21,701 | <|endoftext|>books: Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.<|endoftext|> |
21,702 | <|endoftext|>mind: The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.<|endoftext|> |
21,703 | <|endoftext|>knowledge: For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.<|endoftext|> |
21,704 | <|endoftext|>life: The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.<|endoftext|> |
21,705 | <|endoftext|>writing: All words are pegs to hang ideas on.<|endoftext|> |
21,706 | <|endoftext|>life: The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.<|endoftext|> |
21,707 | <|endoftext|>love: If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.<|endoftext|> |
21,708 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.<|endoftext|> |
21,709 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: Note to Self: Patent #10w Diving Mask for fish filled with water when oceans disappear.<|endoftext|> |
21,710 | <|endoftext|>love: I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.<|endoftext|> |
21,711 | <|endoftext|>faith: Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.<|endoftext|> |
21,712 | <|endoftext|>success: Success is more difficult to handle than failure.<|endoftext|> |
21,713 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.<|endoftext|> |
21,714 | <|endoftext|>education: Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.<|endoftext|> |
21,715 | <|endoftext|>religion: It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.<|endoftext|> |
21,716 | <|endoftext|>happiness: There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.<|endoftext|> |
21,717 | <|endoftext|>humor: Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.<|endoftext|> |
21,718 | <|endoftext|>mind: Present {Couplet} Our present is the dissipating despair of our past mingled with the promise of our future we hope will last.<|endoftext|> |
21,719 | <|endoftext|>religion: Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?<|endoftext|> |
21,720 | <|endoftext|>education: When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.<|endoftext|> |
21,721 | <|endoftext|>truth: You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.<|endoftext|> |
21,722 | <|endoftext|>death: After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!"and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.<|endoftext|> |
21,723 | <|endoftext|>hope: Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.<|endoftext|> |
21,724 | <|endoftext|>religion: Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]<|endoftext|> |
21,725 | <|endoftext|>relationship: When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.<|endoftext|> |
21,726 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.<|endoftext|> |
21,727 | <|endoftext|>writing: Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.<|endoftext|> |
21,728 | <|endoftext|>relationship: If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.<|endoftext|> |
21,729 | <|endoftext|>god: If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.<|endoftext|> |
21,730 | <|endoftext|>love: Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.<|endoftext|> |
21,731 | <|endoftext|>quotes: If you know the brightness of your heart, you will never fear darkness.<|endoftext|> |
21,732 | <|endoftext|>poetry: There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.<|endoftext|> |
21,733 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition."Transition is the tension present between struggle and grace.<|endoftext|> |
21,734 | <|endoftext|>humor: Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.<|endoftext|> |
21,735 | <|endoftext|>religion: It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.<|endoftext|> |
21,736 | <|endoftext|>wisdom: Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.<|endoftext|> |
21,737 | <|endoftext|>poetry: But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it.<|endoftext|> |
21,738 | <|endoftext|>life: The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.<|endoftext|> |
21,739 | <|endoftext|>love: I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.<|endoftext|> |
21,740 | <|endoftext|>love: The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.<|endoftext|> |
21,741 | <|endoftext|>arts: With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.<|endoftext|> |
21,742 | <|endoftext|>funny: To answer your question, you want me because I'm made of awesome.<|endoftext|> |
21,743 | <|endoftext|>humor: This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.<|endoftext|> |
21,744 | <|endoftext|>happiness: Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.<|endoftext|> |
21,745 | <|endoftext|>life: When the world is cold, use bridges for firewood. And for extra warmth, give off an aura of love, and you won't need a bridge, because the other side will come to you.-Amanda Mosher and Jarod Kintz<|endoftext|> |
21,746 | <|endoftext|>humor: To show you I love you, I bought you an antique watch. You can tell it's old because it doesn't even work. I got a great deal on it.<|endoftext|> |
21,747 | <|endoftext|>religion: When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.<|endoftext|> |
21,748 | <|endoftext|>romance: Miss Mitchell had a lovely voice, it was true, but Miss Mitchell speaking Italian was something celestial. Her ruby mouth opening and closing, the delicate way she almost sang the words, her tongue peeking out to wet her lips from time to time...Professor Emerson had to remind himself to close his mouth after it had dropped open.<|endoftext|> |
21,749 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.<|endoftext|> |
21,750 | <|endoftext|>religion: I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.<|endoftext|> |
21,751 | <|endoftext|>love: There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.<|endoftext|> |
21,752 | <|endoftext|>humor: My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.<|endoftext|> |
21,753 | <|endoftext|>hope: I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.<|endoftext|> |
21,754 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.<|endoftext|> |
21,755 | <|endoftext|>success: There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something.<|endoftext|> |
21,756 | <|endoftext|>knowledge: Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.<|endoftext|> |
21,757 | <|endoftext|>poetry: Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.<|endoftext|> |
21,758 | <|endoftext|>quotes: Life is about cherishing memories, getting lost in moments of beauty, and enjoying profound joy and happiness.<|endoftext|> |
21,759 | <|endoftext|>success: It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.<|endoftext|> |
21,760 | <|endoftext|>love: For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.<|endoftext|> |
21,761 | <|endoftext|>arts: The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.<|endoftext|> |
21,762 | <|endoftext|>science: ...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone.""And conscience,"added the bishop."It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us.<|endoftext|> |
21,763 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.<|endoftext|> |
21,764 | <|endoftext|>life: The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.I broke something, Old Man.How badly is it broken?It's in a million little pieces.I'm afraid I can't help you.Why?There's nothing you can do.Why?It can't be fixed.Why?It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.<|endoftext|> |
21,765 | <|endoftext|>truth: I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)<|endoftext|> |
21,766 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.<|endoftext|> |
21,767 | <|endoftext|>relationship: No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.<|endoftext|> |
21,768 | <|endoftext|>books: One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.<|endoftext|> |
21,769 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.<|endoftext|> |
21,770 | <|endoftext|>god: Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.<|endoftext|> |
21,771 | <|endoftext|>death: We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.<|endoftext|> |
21,772 | <|endoftext|>death: And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.<|endoftext|> |
21,773 | <|endoftext|>life: To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.<|endoftext|> |
21,774 | <|endoftext|>love: Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.<|endoftext|> |
21,775 | <|endoftext|>humor: If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.<|endoftext|> |
21,776 | <|endoftext|>death: When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.<|endoftext|> |
21,777 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.<|endoftext|> |
21,778 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.<|endoftext|> |
21,779 | <|endoftext|>truth: Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.<|endoftext|> |
21,780 | <|endoftext|>life: Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.<|endoftext|> |
21,781 | <|endoftext|>happiness: Joy came always after pain.<|endoftext|> |
21,782 | <|endoftext|>education: If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.<|endoftext|> |
21,783 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.<|endoftext|> |
21,784 | <|endoftext|>love: I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.<|endoftext|> |
21,785 | <|endoftext|>soul: I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.<|endoftext|> |
21,786 | <|endoftext|>life: I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.<|endoftext|> |
21,787 | <|endoftext|>success: The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.<|endoftext|> |
21,788 | <|endoftext|>life: Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.<|endoftext|> |
21,789 | <|endoftext|>love: When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be.<|endoftext|> |
21,790 | <|endoftext|>friendship: False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.<|endoftext|> |
21,791 | <|endoftext|>death: I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore,Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,You see me there.<|endoftext|> |
21,792 | <|endoftext|>poetry: It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.<|endoftext|> |
21,793 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).<|endoftext|> |
21,794 | <|endoftext|>wisdom: The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.<|endoftext|> |
21,795 | <|endoftext|>life: Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.<|endoftext|> |
21,796 | <|endoftext|>mind: Ruth Whither thou goest, I will go ~as long as it's to the mall.I heard Dillard's is having an 80% off sale!<|endoftext|> |
21,797 | <|endoftext|>soul: I drink to separate my body from my soul.<|endoftext|> |
21,798 | <|endoftext|>life: She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.<|endoftext|> |
21,799 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.<|endoftext|> |
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