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We are the ones we've been waiting for.

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process

He wished he was doing much more than kissing the back of her silky hand, though throwing her on the bar and devouring her like a man-eater wasn't a wise option. But... he was only human.

Love Bites

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

Love Bites

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their...

Life of Christ

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

Life of Christ

The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.

Life of Christ

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer – here and here, this is going to happen. Voodoo.

The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction.

Life Is Worth Living

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does no...

The Library at Night

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

The Library at Night

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

The Library at Night

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

The Library at Night

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

The Library at Night

-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.

Let the Right One In