You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?
Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.
Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.
Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish?
Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all...
I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.
I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go
I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
Give full attention to life's moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.
When you love your work then it isn't work, it's your love affair.
When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you...
Most people I’ve spoken to have no idea that they are capable of controlling every single thought that comes into their minds: every second, every minute, and every day. They are convinced that...
So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear...
Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being.
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the...
In short, the gabbellotto was a mafioso who for a certain sum of money protected the real estate of the rich from all claims made on it by the poor, legal or illegal. When any poor peasant tried to...
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...
I'm letting this Rebecca mystery make my mind run wild. Actually, my whole life feels like it's running wild whereas only weeks before it was calm and uneventful. I'm standing on a high-rise ledge and...
And from that time on the boys were no longer called Elder and Younger, but they were given school names by the old teacher, and this old man, after inquiring into the occupation of their father,...
Gilles made up his mind, and snapped, 'D'you write Latin?'Sometimes Jerott forgot that the blazon of chivalry, with all the status it once had carried, was no longer his. In any case, he had an...
Which reminds me -''The new ladies have arrived,' said Adam grimly. 'Guaranteed of clean stock, and inured to Russian practices. Osep has announced himself suited.''For the time being,' said Danny,...
I'm sorry,' said Jerott, his eyes elsewhere. What was the attraction here, in God's name? Not the little woman in the stained gown, surely? Or the plain fourteen-year-old who had been so courageous...
It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.
If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.
Existence, after losing her, would be hell
I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
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....