A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.
I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.
Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
Charlotte’s dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises.
I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.
Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game
During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.
My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.
Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery temper. Don't ever run from it; learn from it!
The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.
Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.
The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!
