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The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero.

Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.

Eternal Kiss

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Eat, Pray, Love

Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.

Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women

So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?!

Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

Fahrenheit 451

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)

The Fantastic Four: The Trial of Galactus

My dreams tend to be either so obscure as to seem random, or so obviously connected to my subconscious that it's embarrassing- as if even my hidden depths lack depth.

The Financial Lives of the Poets

The Bible says, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”41 It’s saying, “Don’t live to get, live to give.

A Fresh Start: 5 Keys to Stepping into Your Best Season

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

The Bible is the most important part of your faith.

Following God with All Your Heart: Believing and Living God's Plan for You

- Youth. Live life and enjoy while thou art still young. - Huh? Where's it come from? Who said that? - I did.

Gunslinger Girl Omnibus 1

You see? This is why you don't get mixed up in people's lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.

Give Up the Ghost

A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.

Green Tea Living: A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness