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You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated from an ancient myth.

The grace of prayer is an act of seeking to communicate with divine power.

Don't Judge People By Their Outer Appearances, Even The Bright Beautiful Moon Has Its Dark Side Which It Keeps Hidden All The Time....

When I remove the layers that say I can’t, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

Love is fantasy....Life is reality

When words are too heavy for the mouth, the soul weeps in agony

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.

The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they’ll teach you what you don’t want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.

You can be all that you wish and desire to be.Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams.

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).

It's hard to tread lightly when you continue to accumulate.

How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one....

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

Grace is more desirable than gold.

Our actions and words built invaluable relationship.

I smile, she blushes.I smirk, she slaps me on the arm, softly.I breathe, because it's easy around her.

As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they had parents who were not curious about who they were but, instead, told them who they should be. What Cozolino explains, is that the child creates a "persona" for her parents but doesn't learn to know herself. What happens is that "the authentic self"--the part of us open to feelings, experinces, and intimicy--remains underdeveloped.

The right loved one will fill up your life like the final puzzle piece that makes it all complete. You feel it when you meet them. Or sometimes if you aren’t mature enough or wise enough, it can take time to discover that they are the right one. Once your jigsaw puzzle is complete, the rest are often just extra pieces.

Great matter-days remain on the day stone balance, affecting your life on the day the occur and every day thereafter. So the earlier they happen, the better; waiting means potentially sacrificing years or even decades of benefit.

Plateaus are a manifestation of the law of diminishing returns, and when we reach one it simply means that it is time to adjust our methods.

If you must chase make certain its with passion so you may reap a worthy reward.

If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.

I have only one prayer and that is, “Please give me endless power to love.

...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves.

Being good at what you do is never enough

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.

Cross-legged on the floor, you drink, hoping each mouthful will hurt; occasional flurries of spastic movement as you try to work out what to do with your hands. When everyone else is gone, your world is just a tiny box with the walls pressing in. Messages on the phone you can't bear to play, much less listen to, and nothing in the apartment that you can recognize as meaningfully yours.

FAIL UP. If something doesn’t go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

Some can be rich and not be happy because money does not buy happiness and happiness wont change the past.

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem

When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

...a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

I'm an idiot like you said, so whatever you say about me doesn't matter, but you know... Don't you dare point a gun at your own brother!

Every person who denies the truth is a coward who doesn't want to admit the truth

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

I write because I believe

What goes around comes around""the word you are looking is (Karma)meaning what bad you have done to someone else. Be careful it will come back in another way at its own time and you wont even realize it.

...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)

he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt.

Anna gave her that disjointed look with which so many people regarded Hannah, as if they has fallen too many words behind to ever catch up.

The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.

You need not have any motivation but the motivation to overpower your mind.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

Speak your truth, create your path, love your journey.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.