Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
Don't fall in love with someone who says the right things. fall in love with someone who does the right things.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things
In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye.
I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?
Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.
Was that Will?" she said finally. Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible..." For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
Maybe one reason I had avoided anger was that like a lot of people I had thought there were only two responses to anger: to deny it or to strike out thoughtlessly. But other responses are possible.
Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that scenario.
We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.
It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen
Purpose creates a belief in a higher power, directing you toward your goal on the best path possible.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. (“The Story of Princess...
