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The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had in common. As I lay in bed at night, the sky outside my window reflecting the city's dim glow, I thought about Abuelita’s fierce loyalty to blood. ...

My Beloved World

Stories are masks of God. That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm. Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, co...

The Man on the Ceiling

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it...

Père Goriot

The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others...

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

I don't define success by how much money someone makes. I don't define success by how many trophies or plaques or awards someone has. I don't define it by membership in exclusive clubs or the ability to name-drop about someone's famous friends. I don...

You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool

So I was just thinking about how something happened today and it was quite insightful, humbling and puts things into perspective. If you look at anything, everything has it's 'story' so to speak. For instance, for me to even write this status require...

Michael R. Kitay

Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosyst...

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy

If you want to know how the true story goes, wait till the arguments start.

African

No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.

Danish

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Italian

Though the palm tree in the jungle is big, who knows how big its yield will be?

Liberian

No matter how hard you throw a dead fish in the water, it still won't swim.

Traditional

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

Creation: Life and How to Make It

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

Desierto: Memories of the Future

Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.

Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Divergent

What we are now, we continue to be.

Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

Euphoria