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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

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

I eat my heart out alone.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like {Chris Kimsington}.

You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

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...

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...

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We in ancient countries have our past-we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own...

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates...

before speaking, notice what motivates your words.

It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it.

And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.

She resented the fact that her veil, which to her was a symbol of scared relationship to god, had now become an instrument of power, turning the women who wore them into political signs and symbols.

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa

The man who makes no mistakes never makes anything

Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition.

The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics...

Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don't really do as adults, says cartoonist Chris Ware. We're all going around in a cloud of remembrance and anxiety, he says, and the act of drawing...

Anne of Green Gables Series!

And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

and thread, and even bandages, because he knew those at the clinic would not be sterile. The hospital was one of those communist-built structures of steel and glass, slapped up in the fifties, that...

Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabularyare your brain's limits, not the universe's.

Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.

Get out of that comfortable rut.

You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.