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Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

He Died With His Eyes Open

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

A History of Reading

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

Her Own Rules

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine" - Lady Madelyne.

Honor's Splendour

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

If

A lot of men tend to want "models" I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one.

Internet Dates from Hell

But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?" "No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough." "Why not?" "Well, if that was enough, if just saying no and not giving a reason was enough, where would we be? It would just be chaos.

Intrusion

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

But there are people too he says, everywhere there are people and I think it is easier to hold hands with people than it is with angels, yes?

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

The Journals, 1762-95

Quoting : "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Jesus-Shock

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

The Reformed Pastor

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace