Strive for balance in your life. You are the heart and soul of your business so take care of yourself.
Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood.
It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible. ("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.
It was the sexual chemistry I wanted more of. It was electric. I'd forgotten what it was like to be with someone who excited you in every sense of the word, who thrilled and frightened you in equal measure.
How do you feel about going on a date with me? I'm abroad for another two weeks; you've got plenty of time to prepare yourself. It will be the best night of your life, of course.
No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.
He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling him to see a world he didn't even know existed.
So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.
All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow.
Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.
Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.
The man on the rock had pitched five outs in the losing game, and had given up two runs on a single. But he’d inherited loaded bases. The story of his life. The story of all our lives.
Jesus doesn't adjust to us, and He doesn't submit to our whims. We adjust to Jesus and submit to Him. Jesus is King, not an accessory.
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.
I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick.
I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.
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