Ana thought eyebrow rings were stupid. She liked earrings, and she could understand nose rings, belly-button rings and even pierced tongues, but metal sticking out of random facial places like...
The more we die, the stronger we will become
Withdrawal to our dreams may be dangerous
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So...
They encourage us to show the feelings of our love for the Imam in the utmost exaggeration forms, while they are forbidden to show any public expression of our personal feelings, and I mean love in...
before speaking, notice what motivates your words.
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa
It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it.
Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition.
Anne of Green Gables Series!
Given that grief remained the most general of afflictions its literature seemed remarkably spare.
Get out of that comfortable rut.
I was just existing, but he made me want to live.
Respect is primary.
Mages say that we are inside the bubble. This is the bubble in which we were placed at the time of our birth. First, the bubble is open, but then it begins to close until it seals us inside itself....
The subject was war. The good book says that he that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword, said the black. The judge smiled, his face shining with grease. What right man would have it any...
Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country- ask him how he weighs an individual in the scheme of things. Ask him which comes first, his old...
Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.
Hope flickered in my chest. 'Do you think they'll stop this... zombie-apocalypse-in-the-making if they realize I'm back on Team Not-Insane?
The ability to feel the anger and convey it to others is itself the transformative experience for many women. Women's anger spurs creativity and drives innovation in politics and social change, and it...
The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
But we must not repine at what Providence has ordained. {First Samuel, 29th and 18th.}
There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back-unless it is a woman who won't.
The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear.
Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects.
Narknon put a paw on Harry's chest and began licking her face; a hunting-cat's tongue is much harsher than a housecat's. Harry thought her skin would crumble and peel off, but she didn't have the...
I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself.
The burden she carried was different from yours, and it had worn on her for many years. When I knew her she had forgotten joy, although I believe Arlbeth gave her a little back again.
Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.
My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with...
If you are proven to be right a hundred times in a row,no amount of evidence will convince you that you are mistakenin the hundred-and-first case. You will be seduced byyour own apparent...
The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks...
In the midst of life we are in death
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
