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People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

You see, it is our pain that connects us to all of the most beautiful parts of life. Love is such a marvelous pain.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition; just accept it. But the greatest human skill is that of a choice maker.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit.

Makers

I can't, Muffin. I can't talk to him. Why? He was good enough to sleep with, but not good enough to talk to now that he know's that you're part fish?

The Mermaid's Knight

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

Marriage and Morals

A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse, "And morning came and Jesus was standing on the shore.

And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection

Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.

Mounting the Whale

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.

The Maine Woods

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

Natural Born Charmer

The forces that we deal with have two sides: one is good and helpful and the other is dark and dangerous. Part of your training is to learn to distinguish between them, and know when to use which.” (Nakoma)

Nakoma, a spirit's destiny

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time

It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.

Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two objects are, the greater the sympathetic link. The greater the link, the more easily they influence each other.

The Name of the Wind

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental.

The Kingdom of Little Wounds

I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work.

Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity

We're practical and sensible but we're also dreamers. Don't forget that part of you. There's nothing wrong with being sensible, but dreams are what make you fly. And you're destined to touch the sky.

Love Left Behind