We can live indifferently to what people say
That, she said, is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your...
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously;...
Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere...
Western things stop being so by repetition
Frankly, if I walk into your house and you don't have two hundred books somewhere that you haven't read yet, I don't trust you.
Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do...
There I realized that she is a pleasure and joy and that she is my spiritual and my life, and that the world without a sorter is not equal to an atom of ashes.
Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them,...
What you told me did not change my way of thinking and I repeat that I would love to be your lifelong partner, but I want you to think very carefully about whether that man is me or not. If your...
The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell
Delaying giving as a strategy for future kingdom building is risky. We could hold on to assets out of fear of letting go or unwillingness to surrender control to the Lord. As long as money lies within...
Perhaps parents' greatest heritage to pass on to their children is the ability to perceive the multitude of God's daily blessings and to respond with continual gratitude. We should be "abounding in...
Real gold fears no fire.
I believe I'm very happy.
And our hotness never knew justice and peace. This is what he had eliminated since Adham and Omaima were expelled from the big house. Do you not know this, Jablawi? It seems that injustice will...
Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.
{Mma Ramotswe thinking about what her father taught her…}...
- So turn around quickly and tell me everything about yourself!...
Whoop-de-do, said Ram.What?I'm celebrating.Was that irony or loss of mental function? asked the expendable.Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in...
These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.
The current almost hysterical concern for security is at best a waste of resources and an obstacle to the human spirit, and in the worst case an invitation to totalitarianism. Public education is...
Mark Nepo, one of my favorite spiritual writers.
Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became...
Memories streamed over her, and she sat up, images converging in her mind's eye, the sneaker wave of grief catching her in its riptide pull once again, leaving her washed ashore, bereft, with two deep...
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
What materials do you like best?...
What a creative memories that life lose every value.
Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.
microbial resistance to antibiotics…
-That's why you have to stay away from people who have icy breath. His mere presence could put out the most intense fire, with the results we already know. The more distance we take from these people,...
Those huge stars have lasted for millions of years by taking care never to absorb any of the fiery rays lovers all over the world send up at them night after night. To avoid that, the star generates...
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....
