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[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

Sometimes keeping a secret seems like the right thing to do because telling the truth might hurt someone and makes it seem like you don't love them. But really, telling the truth is the right thing to do. It's the most loving thing to do.-Kaylee

Only the brilliance of your soul can keep you breathing while you sleep.

Silence is a language not all people understand.

A "question" is a microscope of words.

Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.

I keep thinking and worry about life, he says...I asked him: can you change yesterday?he said: no..I asked him: do you know what will happen tomorrow?he said: no..If you do not know what will happen tomorrowand if you can not change yesterdaythat means you only have today.Start living Life while you have it.Today.

Meditation is the glue that holds our mind, body, and spirit together

The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so much a final frontier as an ultimate frontier; the ultimate frontier – as wide as it is deep. Stars shine coldly in the unimaginable blackness. Out of the darkness, a tiny speck caught the distant light of stars – a tiny gray speck that, as it moved, seemed to grow larger, catching the light just so until it revealed itself to be a ship.

Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma?

Love is worth everything. Everything.

It's Salvation. When Jen told me I had a vision. A vision Rena. I think I saw the blessed mother smiling and she was hold ing a loofa.[In regards to moving out of dorms and having three bathrooms between 4 roomates]

Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.

You used to scream so well when you were scared, back when I lived under your bed.

Don't take crucial decisions when you are depressed or filled with anger, because then the decision is not made by you.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.

Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war, enough killing. Enough. No more.

The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of men.

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.

Gerdanlouk, he thinks. An evocative Turkish word, with Arabic roots. It means jewelry, but only jewelry adorning a woman between her lower neck and the top of her breasts. Gerdanlouk. He looks away.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.

Death is a departure.

Two gorgeous guys slaving in the kitchen. Doesn't get any better than this.''You have low standards,' Chait grinned over his shoulder and dropped bread into the toaster. 'If I had two hot girls in my kitchen, I'd want them naked.' I stood immobile, seeing Chait and Hayden in my minds eye. Naked, cooking for me.Hayden glanced my way and chuckled as I dashed away.

Nothing but trees.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

The days of the pushy salesmen and self-serving narcissists are over. That type of behavior quickly alienates and pushes people away because it offends and can’t be trusted.

None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.

Buy potatoes,” he said. “Gotta hop.” Then he hung up. Of course. A cloud of fallout would threaten European food and water supplies, including the potato crop, placing a premium on uncontaminated American substitutes. Perhaps a few folks other than potato farmers think of the price of potatoes in America minutes after the explosion of a nuclear reactor in Russian, but I have never met them.

I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I do not trust that life takes care of me. But now I discover a silent place in the depth of my inner being, where I am already one with life, where I am OK as I am. It is also a silent inner place of healing and wholeness, where I can find a love and acceptance for that which is imperfect within myself.

listen, God is not some little genie or a vending machine. And is not just worth it because he makes your life all better, but He's with you. God wants so much more for your life than fine

Can you walk the road your dream goes?Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to.Who is not....

My stress resulted from not knowing God, not trusting him with my whole heart, seeking peace and purpose from the world instead of from him, and from being so afraid of change that I would rather suffer than obey.

Autumn is the time of balance and ofsacrifice, a time when the light is defeated by darkness, a timewhen night takes over and brings the coming winter. Theancient wisdom says that those who long for light must facetheir inner darkness and overcome it.

That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

My main purpose in life is to do everything on purpose.

Just realize that the Mechanics do not exist and are not worthy of your attention. Unless they threaten you, and then you must kill them, Mage Alain. Mechanics are as merciless as they are mercenary. If any appear dangerous, kill them. ...What if he had remembered that advice during the bandit attack, when the Mechanic had pointed her weapon at his face? He could have killed her then. He could have tried at least. Then, when she was dead, the bandits would have found Alain and killed him, too. Clearly the advice of his elders was lacking in some respects.

You’re just a figment of my imagination. A fantasy?”“Yes.” He didn’t dare move.“Then why are you still wearing clothes?

PoemWords from the heartBreaking, teaching, healingThe deepest, purest form of artFeeling

The closest thing I have to a spiritual experience anymore is a Mocha Frappe from McDonald's.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

When you focus on ‘giving’ the best in a relationship you are not dependent on others for your fulfillment!!!

Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't

We're going to explore the outside world someday, right? Far beyond these walls, there's flaming water, land made of ice, and fields of sand spread wide. It's the world my parents wanted to go to.