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The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a fatalism in one's acceptance of it. Solitude is not the solution, one feels followed. Choice - choice of those who are to surround one, choice of those most likely to see you rightly - is the only escape.

Everyone deserv a chance maybe 2 or 3, but always this guy wants something and before he didn't made it don't mean that now again won't reach a conclusion.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Love is sacred state of mind, body and soul.

I am grateful to God for all His many untold blessing upon my life.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

black identities are diverse and complex…

One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.

Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

Be what you are not. The true self is no one.

The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.

The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.

Wait for your want with a persistent prayer.

From Chapter 1:The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from the MP Corps, vowing I'd never do police or criminal investigative work again. Instead, I returned home when I should've learned better.

There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source.

The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.

God, or the 99 Gods, can’t give out miracles to everyone without contradictions.  Give to one, take from another.  Prayer is pathetic, if you give it any thought.  Prayer is nothing but ‘I’m special, gimme what I want’ egotism run amok, exactly the sort of muddy thinking I expect from non-Telepaths.Nessa Binglehause

There is a lot of criticism around you. Don't pay attention to what they say or think...As long as you are gratified for what you do, what do you care what other people think?

Don't make your character that people can walk on it, make your character as sky so that people would dream to get there

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.

David looked at her and smiled. "I think you have to feel comfortable being alone with yourself before you truly know who you are and can feel comfortable being yourself with others.

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!

I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK beacuse he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that- he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

Whenever I feel ‘less of myself’, or as if I am not as productive as I can be, or abundance is not flowing into my life, or I am not laughing and smiling as much, or my relationships seem stuck and difficult, it is an indication that I am losing that connection. It is like being in a ‘bad service area’ where calls drop out.

Trust is like sand, one lie and it slips away.

Storytelling keeps life going.

I leaned down and looked at his handsome face. I wanted to kiss him in a way that would remain soft and true on his lips, all the while help him from escaping the overwhelming sense of sadnes that he felt. I pressed forward and kissed him, tasting the saltiness of fish against his lips, and the disappointment that he held so very deeply inside. I kissed him long and wide, yet limp and yielding, pulling myself away from reality to only drown in the fantasy of our love. I touched his mouth in such a loving way, that not even his incapability to reach into my soul, could tear us away from exchanging such romance. He immediately gave into the kiss, his sadness slowly giving way to the moment that we so intimately shared. It amazed me what a merman could do, even when flowing tears streamed down his face. Through the bridge of kissing, I had healed him, and he had healed me in return.

Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them...But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.

A person without regrets is called a corpse.

For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.

Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create.

She doesn't give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow...Find it. If you can.

I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me. Now I’m trapped. I cannot survive in this elevator. Not with him, Not for much longer Another second.

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

Like Mum and that bastard.” “You mean Da?”“Call him what you like.

Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?

Great mentors give great advice.

I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.

The image of him shifted with the violent frenzy of leaves. He was there and he wasn’t, as the leaves whipped and the lightning fell away in a slow strobe effect across the expanse of sky. How he had gotten up there, I had no idea, but he had been there. Crouched in the tree in the middle of the courtyard, he watched me intently through the open window.

One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.

The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

It's amazing that people actually get paid for what I'm doing on here for free.

A forced smile covers many struggles and has the power to improve perspective. Despite any difficulties, a smile can change everything!

[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.

God is interested in how you relate to Him

I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

We were created to live a life of prayer.

Always listen to your heart and listen to your gut. Neither of them will ever lie to you.

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.

Not everything that's small is insignificant.