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66794e2 Liberating ourselves from the traditional strictures of marriage altogether, and/or transforming those strictures to include all of us -- gay, feminist, career-focused, baby crazy, monogamous, non-monogamous, skeptical, romantic, and everyone in between -- is the challenge facing this generation. As we consciously opt out or creatively reimagine marriage one loving couple at a time, we'll be able to shift societal expectations wholesale, fr.. love marriage men monogamy nonmonogamy women Courtney E. Martin
5231064 You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities. Brian Tracy
30d204d The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. Brian Tracy
1b18201 Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts. Brian Tracy
344fa9d What are your three most important business or career goals right now? What are your three most important family or relationship goals right now? What are your three most important financial goals right now? What are your three most important health goals right now? What are your three most important personal and professional development goals right now? What are your three most important social and community goals right now? What are your .. Brian Tracy
234ad96 Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life. Brian Tracy
b28a4ca When in doubt, check if your actions are aligned with your purpose. align alignment doubt purpose Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
f2ac0c8 You can't help the poor by becoming one of them. Brian Tracy
47eccbb I've never attended a Quaker service before." "We believe that true religion is a personal encounter with God rather than a matter of ritual and ceremony, and that all aspects of life are sacramental. Therefore, no one day or place or activity is any more spiritual than any other. But we gather together at such times to discover in stillness a deeper sense of God's presence." C.S. Harris
1c567ac Universal dilemma of the real dog person: You leave the dog home, you worry what will happen to him when you're out. You take the dog with you, you worry that something will happen to him when he's alone in the car....The solution, of course, is to keep the dog at your side twenty-four hours a day, every day, but then you worry that your constant presence is making the dog neurotically dependent, and besides, you can't go anyplace that does.. Susan Conant
3960ef4 Mom has no idea that I want to go to Our Lady of Sorrows just to investigate a haunting. I have a gut feeling I'm going to be an outsider at this school, but that's the price I pay for being a psychic investigator. Like my Master Psychic's Handbook says, "Being a psychic isn't a normal career, like being a doctor or a lawyer. At some point, there may be a price to pay for such an unusual, misunderstood lifestyle." Jennifer Allison
d649cb2 The term 'atheist,'" Kirsch continued, "should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a 'nonastrologer' or a 'nonalchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive, or for people who doubt that aliens traverse the galaxy only to molest cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs." A growing number of students clapped th.. Dan Brown
fa7aafd Albus Severus," kata Harry pelan, sehingga tak ada orang lain kecuali Ginny yang bisa mendengarnya, dan Ginny cukup bijaksana untuk berpura-pura melambai kepada Rose, yang sekarang sudah di atas kereta, "kau dinamakan seperti dua kepala sekolah Hogwarts. Salah satunya adalah Slytherin dan dia barangkali orang paling berani yang pernah kutemui." harry-potter the-deathly-hallows J.K. Rowling
4017bde There's a reason why they call Buddhism "advanced common sense"; it's all about methodically confronting obvious-but-often-overlooked truths (everything changes, nothing fully satisfies) until something in you shifts." Dan Harris
8d860a0 As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration. -Sookie Charlaine Harris
9a7804e The air was cold and wet, and if you stood still for a moment the chilling damp would creep into your bones. I could tell the temperature was taking a deep dive, and the bright sky of the morning was a fond memory. It was an appropriate day to dump a body. Charlaine Harris
1ce363a I would feel the urge to attack people, to bite them; they'd all be walking McBloodburgers to me. Charlaine Harris
7bc56e1 Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. "But I'm an emotional eater," she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. "And I was real emotional in jail." prison Charlaine Harris
9e44bef Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that says ." -- Manfred" manfred Charlaine Harris
1fccd91 Then I happened upon a whore. Charlaine Harris
37e7e51 Angelique Sookie, toi qui es la beaute et la grace incarnees, pardonne-moi. Je suis accable a l'idee que cette menade malfaisante et demoniaque ait pu oser violenter ce corps parfait et voluptueux qui est le tien, dans l'intention de faire parvenir un message a mon indigne et miserable personne. lol Charlaine Harris
61ba086 The fundamentalists were equally stymied. "We were worried about Adam and Steve," a Baptist minister said. "Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?" shifters Charlaine Harris
0d67a3c When I went home...I promised myself, I would take a cool shower and I would read. After a day spent dealing with others, television was just one more batch of voices to listen to; I'd rather have a book in my hands than the remote control. Charlaine Harris
830c192 So a Sherrilyn Kenyon kinda shifter or a Charlaine Harris kinda shifter? Alanea Alder
770664e This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana. true-blood Charlaine Harris
9b0a402 My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it. pride temper Charlaine Harris
99f1882 No one would ever like him; he would never be accused of being unfair. fair like Charlaine Harris
d976808 Those words are not a magical formula. They're not going to open my heart to you. Charlaine Harris
6d43b2d Vampires, bringing America together! vampires Charlaine Harris
864c29e The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time. time Charlaine Harris
a5e8cf9 I could feel the warmth of the dog through my nightgown; I must have gotten hot during the night and thrown off the sheet. I drowsily patted the animal's head and began to stroke his fur, my fingers running idly through the thick hair. He wriggled even closer, sniffed my face, put his arm around me. His *arm*? I was off the bed and shrieking in one move. In my bed, Sam propped himself on his elbows, sunny side up, and looked at me with some.. dean dean-the-collie sam-merlotte shapeshifters sookie-stackhouse Charlaine Harris
b56ef79 Loveable Isn't he? -Eric Northman Charlaine Harris
a31e202 But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless. sookie-stackhouse supernatural true-blood vampires werewolves Charlaine Harris
4a4ee75 Lou, honey, I'll buy you a new pair of shoes if you'll stop flashing your panties at everyone sitting across the room from us. You are wearing panties, right?" I glance up and across at Stefan. His words register a moment later and my head swivels toward the other side of the room. There are a number of people staring at me. One of them is Detective Terry Shay. Or I think it is. He's not looking directly at me. He's looking up my skirt" Ronda Thompson
cae41dd I have been loved and given love. Ronda Thompson
6beed34 The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows sadness Barbara Kingsolver
f7796d4 I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. Garrison Keillor
eda861e you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind. Garrison Keillor
03b1582 Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future past positive thoughts Garrison Keillor
5b902c0 What liberals must conserve is the middle class: the stable family who can afford to enjoy music and theater and take the kids to Europe someday and put money in the collection plate and save for college and keep up the home and be secure against catastrophe. This family has taken big hits in payroll taxes and loss of buying power and a certain suppressed panic about job security. Garrison Keillor
4630297 The living wander away, we don't hear from them for months, years--but the dead move in with us to stay. Garrison Keillor
719991f Sometimes I think I understand everything--then I regain consciousness. Garrison Keillor
f4e806a In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height. Barbara Kingsolver
27e8709 Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Barbara Kingsolver