A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.
Andrew Weil
We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.
Lorne Sanny
They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.Ay, the old man said. Galanos. Come on galanos.
Ernest Hemingway
Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
Sanskrit Poem
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
Benjamin Franklin
I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
Jenny Eclair
Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.
Paul Santaguida
Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmyer
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
Martin Sheen
Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.
Rose Saperstein
But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
Paul Robeson
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Richard Ben Sapir
Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.
Terry Pratchett
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
Thomas Mann
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
Dean Koontz
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.
Katherine Heigl
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Marya Mannes
Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.
George Eliot
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
John Green
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction of writing -- one can impersonate so many people.
I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it
Mahatma Gandhi
We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
Kate Mulgrew
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped...
J.K. Rowling
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
Abbas Kiarostami
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege
Plato
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
Orson Scott Card
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
Simon Newcomb
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen
Samuel Johnson
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
Neale Donald Walsch
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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