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When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

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Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

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Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage a...more

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Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

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This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as...more

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Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

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Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once a...more

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Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

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That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however;...more

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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.When the array of paths before us is so perplexing ...more

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A broken thing can't fix itself.

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Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in he...more

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The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

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Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

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...up to no good—and pleased about it.