Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them thin...
Meditation is a mysterious method of self-restoration. It involves “shutting” out the outside world, and by that means sensing the universal “presence” which is, incidentally, absolute perfect peace. It is basically an existential “time-out...
No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul,...
You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have y...
[first lines] Andrea Phillips: Okay. You all right? Captain Richard Phillips: Yeah. Andrea Phillips: You'd think these trips would get easier, but it's just the opposite. Captain Richard Phillips: Well, I feel the same way, Ange. Andrea Phillips: I k...
The Monster: For as long as I can remember people have hated me. They looked at my face and my body and they ran away in horror. In my loneliness I decided that if I could not inspire love, which is my deepest hope, I would instead cause fear. I live...
It is easy to be wise after the event.
If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.
Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.
Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.
An easy life taught one very little.
War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.
Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.
I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.
Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.
Dying is easy. Living is hard
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
