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Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else," rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.

Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind: Reflections of a Korean Buddhist Master

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.

The Pilgrim's Regress

You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

The Phantom Tollbooth

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You

Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

The bonsai grower knows that if she can give life to a product that lives forever and perpetually adds value to the lives of others, she has not only a success but a legacy.

Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout

We are bastards of the gods, Sorvus, you and I. I once shared the dream you seem to think you are now living. The dream of living here, in Northbrook, the birthplace of our mothers." Thais turned his head to the trees. He heard something. "Such decep...

Recompense

The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.

The Tommyknockers

Some people work to live, and other people live to work. Then some people, like me, are both unemployed and alive (at least at the time of this writing).


This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

My plan to live from 65 to forever is to simply keep showing up. I also don’t want to retire at the same age as a road’s speed limit—unless that speed limit is 35. Live slow, die old.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype & Spin

Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies.

The Underground Girls Of Kabul: The Hidden Lives Of Afghan Girls Disguised As Boys

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Instead, shake things up today! Live through today. Don’t just exist through it - LIVE through it!

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience