Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage.
Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens—even when things go wrong.
You came into my life when I was alone, with not another person to call my own. You mended the broken shreds of my heart.
He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.
... I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch’s ultimate authority.
Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.
George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.
I think maybe today a poem I hope after breakfast I start trying pulling it out of my own gut mostly by force
But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life; it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own.
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet.
The basic question is not how much of our money we should give to God, but how much of God's money we should keep for ourselves.
Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.
I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others [...]
I thought it would be easy to own my mistakes, to say goodbye, to let go… but the words turned to tears in my mouth and I choked on salt of my own making.
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
His pain hurt me in a way I'd never felt before. It was worse than my own pain. My strength wavered. I felt completely powerless.
Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.
If you allow an experienced man of the world to introduce you to passion when you want him more than he wants you, he will own your soul, but you will not own his.
