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Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!

Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It's not that somebody shouldn't have specialized knowledge. The ability to dig a trench and lay a cable is a kind of specialized knowledge. Farmers have specialized knowledge, too. The question is: what sort of knowledge is privileged in our societies? I don't think that a CEO is more valuable to society and ought to be paid ten million dollars a year, while farmers and laborers starve.The range of what is valued has become so extreme that one lot of people have captured it and left three-quarters of the world to live in unthinkable poverty, because their work is not valued. What would happen if the sweepers of the city went on strike or the sewage system didn't work? A CEO wouldn't be able to deal with his own shit.

If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour on one of those crime story shows.

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them.

He was a committed ladies' man and obtained a great deal of sustenance from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of women, but he guarded himself vigilantly against addiction, fearful of becoming fodder for that feminine allure which is so paradoxically generous to those who take from it and so destructively cruel to those who give.

If sex were food, Rhage would haven been morbidly obese.

Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight with his own father. The father lit into him for using the wheelbarrow."It was this way. They always carried the feed to the horses, pail by pail. In the winter, when the horses were in the stalls. So my father took the notion to carry it to them in the wheelbarrow. Naturally it was a lot quicker. But he got beat. For laziness. That was the way they were, you know. Any change of any kind was a bad thing. Efficiency was just laziness, to them. That's the peasant thinking for you.

He prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world.

I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers,

There is no place more lonelyThan a rich man's home.

Our prayers must be in accordance with the will of God for the simple reason that God knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.

Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn't nearly foolish enough to attack him.

He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive then in the great afterward he would always try to be kind, to live a good, quiet life. Like Candide, he would cultivate his garden. quietly. And that would be his redemption. Even if he could add only a feather to the balance it would be some kind of repayment for being spared. When it was all over and the reckoning fell due, it may be that he would be in need of that feather.

True love waits...

Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what we’d like people to perceive as our values…as we make our everyday choices, we continuously calculate not just which choices best match who we are and what we want but also how those choices will be interpreted by others. We look for cues in our social environment to figure out what others think of this or that, which can require being sensitive to the most localized and up-to-date details of what a particular choice means.

Embrace your imperfections.Fancy your flaws.Flaunt your blemishes.Adore your birthmarks.Laugh off glitches.Discuss your setbacks.Don’t call your mistakes ‘Regrets’Call them ‘Lessons

Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the way is dark and long,Blue will shine with loving light.

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.

4.45 CREATIONMan’s creation – with use clearly decreases,It but fulfillment of want and desire please;God’s Creation – but with use increases,It the fulfillment of love, truly never ceases.[271]t- 4

When a person comes to know God, the Spirit of God revives his spirit and his essence.

I don't believe in magic.'The young boy said. The old man smiled. 'You will when you see her.

Life is what it is...And even without having everything you desire...It is still gloriously beautiful...

Just remember: other people’s opinions are simply that—other people’s opinions. They are not fact, and they are certainly not “the truth.” It is your responsibility to question the authority you give others, to question opinions they want you to adopt as your own, and to question how it is they are observing the world themselves that has them seeing things as they do. Sometimes you need to take back the authority you are giving to the opinions of others and place a bit more trust in yourself.

You have to be a friend to have them.

If you want innovation, growth, and culture, invest in people, not technology. Technology can't lead, love, or connect.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the darkness, it can receive an applause when it is shown in your chapel for everyone to view!

No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found.

I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.

To the one who views from a larger perspective....everything is a blessing.

A questioning man is already half wise.

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

I write more with the words I leave out.

The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life.

Class is mostly a way to find something in myself I didn't know was there. Learning doesn't fill me up so much as opens me up. Shakes me loose and throws me off my habits -- might even rearrange me. It's like if you only rode Brandy and not Geronimo or Elvis. Once in a while I want to get on a horse that scares me sideways.

Tomorrow is always a better day.

I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.

Waiting is often the best part of the story," he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over.

God promises to hear and answer our prayers, but he doesn't always answer the way we want him to.

Your depression is connected to your insolenceand refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or womansteals from others every day--is a shoplifter!The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes.The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say.

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?

People dream. They talk about escaping from it all. Their friends and family diligently listen and politely ignore it when the ruminations fade into oblivion. So quite a few eyebrows went up when I made this trip a reality.

Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.

Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.

There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn’t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, he had no spine, and he had no innards at all. He didn’t have anything. So we don’t even know who we’re talking about. It’s better that we don’t talk about him any more.

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

When you're afraid because you don't know what comes next, I will be there to love you through it. So, I guess today, I'm asking you to let me.

Every single day you make a choice, to be happy and enjoy the ride.....or to be sad worrying about your life. the choice is yours.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.

Trust but check. Check on those we trust.

You don't have to force anyone to Trust You they just do and give away there Heart, Soul and Body to You Only if they really Love you and Mean the world to Them

Smoking will probably kill me, but so will natural selection.

Our head is there to facilitate our coming to an understanding of our purpose and setting the necessary goals to achieve that purpose

There is a valid reason why they say live everyday as if it were your last, the truth is...., there is no tomorrow - just today

I’m more than twisted. I’m the worst kind of vampire… But you’re the one who’s craving me, so what does that make you?