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| 59e470d | I think we all need to learn to like ourselves-just the way we are. And if there are moderate ways to improve our looks and if we're doing it for the right reasons (not to impress our friends!), then maybe it's just fine. Beauty is very subjective-meaning that it all depends on your personal taste. I think that's why God made us all different. So instead of turning ourselves into cookie-cutter images of the latest fashion icon, why not take.. | Melody Carlson | ||
| e5ec39c | It's possible you've already let the right someone walk right past you. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 43c4965 | Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 82514ae | Our Lord reminded his disciples to show hospitality. He said there could be times when they might help or bless a stranger and in reality be blessing him. Be mindful of this as so many of you open your homes to family and loved ones and life becomes somewhat hectic. Perhaps it is in those moments, when all is not going smoothly and well, perhaps that is the very moment when you might discover the Lord is right there in your midst. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 82d564e | I always thought faith was kind of a personal thing, Dad says thoughtfully. Everyone has to figure out for themselves how much they should do things like pray or read the Bible. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 356c430 | New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart. | hope joy life | Melody Carlson | |
| aeda699 | It is a terrible thing to feel that you might break down, you might utter a confession that could not then be retrieved. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 5c9521c | Secrets have always been easy for me, it's the opposite of secrets that is hard. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 316c3e5 | Love is not enough to keep us from harm. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 570da93 | Out of obscurity I came. To obscurity I can return. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| eba7411 | In dreams sometimes it is like this. I am lying very still, my arms and legs are numb or paralyzed. There is a medical term--peripheral neuropathy. A tingling sensation in fingers and toes that moves upward bringing with it a loss of feeling, a spreading numbness, a kind of amnesia of the body. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 2f83b00 | Were you wounded when your marriage collapsed? When your love collapsed? Or does love never "collapse," only just fade gradually away?" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 29816e3 | In the throat, the male is as vulnerable as the female. Once the sharp points of the shears pierce his skin, puncture the artery, there will be no turning back for either of them. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f37d61a | The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities that are often the truly crucial elements in a causal chain. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 677df69 | It's not a pretty world, Papa." "I've noticed," my father said softly." | Chaim Potok | ||
| ad7ce90 | You paint it," he responds. "You are a specialist in darkness." I tell him, "I didn't live through it." He says, "We all lived through it, everyone; all of humanity lived through it. Was Picasso in Guernica? Did Guido Reni see with his own eyes the slaughter of little children in Bethlehem?" | Chaim Potok | ||
| 2a11702 | Devorah tended to fill empty spaces with books: end tables, the tops of dressers, the edges of desks, on occasion even a chair. She would arrange and rearrange the books with exacting care, lining up the spines so none jutted out: sentinel rows of books. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 3b6ebf2 | White is fearful to gaze upon for too long: it is the color of shrouds; it is all-color, the prism fused, undifferentiated, linked wave to wave and particle to particle. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 32e9423 | He thinks: He could give up. He could admit defeat. But he will not admit defeat. He is still alive. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f360887 | Love is what can't be helped. When it waxes, and when it wanes. Love is what happens when you've been looking another way. Love is that sensation of something on the back of your neck, tell yourself it's nothing, a strand of hair, at last you touch it and discover it's an insect--you cast off with a curse. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| c38c88c | When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the.. | Chaim Potok | ||
| cc3b220 | True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. --BEN JONSON | Chaim Potok | ||
| f72b0e7 | Rabbinic literature can be studied in two different ways, in two directions, one might say. It can be studied quantitatively or qualitatively - or, as my father once put it, horizontally or vertically. The former involves covering as much material as possible, without attempting to wrest it from it all its implications and intricacies; the latter involves confining oneself to one single area until it is exhaustively covered, and then going .. | Chaim Potok | ||
| b895e28 | Reuven, I did not want my Daniel to become like my brother, may he rest in peace. Better I should have had no son at all than to have a brilliant son who had no soul. I looked at my Daniel when he was four years old, and I said to myself, How will I teach this mind what it is to have a soul? How will I teach this mind to understand pain? How will I teach it to want to take on another person's suffering? How will I do this and not lose my so.. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 33e37f1 | He became angry. "It should read 'those who fear ideas,' not 'those who fear God.' There are times when those who fear God make themselves very unpleasant as human beings." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 8c6dc42 | It's only a book. But what it means to write a book. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 2936998 | a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing, But the man who lves that span, he is something... A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 5a8fc85 | He's not asking me to make a choice. He's telling me to take a stand. I'm either with him or against him. All or nothing. I'm disgusted with the whole business. I don't want smicha if the price I have to pay for it is to stop thinking. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 1918adf | Take care of your father," he said. "There aren't many people like him around anymore." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 680bf07 | If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble. | Chaim Potok | ||
| c8c5f28 | My father's right to shape my life had been taken from him by the same being who gave his own life meaning - the Rebbe. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 276075e | What've I got to do, to prove how much I love you? Blow us all away? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| fab2765 | Every day someone out there comes to the end of his tether, decides he can't carry on any more, and starts looking for a really good method to end it all. How do you do it? Let me count the ways. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 3e3dbac | He had worked to save those men, though it had been hopeless work. Mankind had acquired an appetite for dying; doctors had become shepherds to the process. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| ecb97c3 | we stand revealed as something our parents are mortified to have created. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 48c0265 | so mean that her death would cause a thousand of Hell's toughest demons to opt for early retirement. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 9ebbeb7 | The things you have heard are true; we are the mothers of monsters. We would, however, like to clarify a few points. For instance, by the time we realized what Jeffrey had been up to, he was gone. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| c422078 | Suicide is in fact a consoling thought. Suicide is the secret door by which you can exit the world at any time--it's wholly up to you. For who can prevent you, if suicide is truly your wish? Who has the moral authority, | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| c802534 | THANK YOU but please do not write again. And do not call. I have had enough of you. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| ae41270 | For it seemed (though why it seemed so, no one knew) that everything began on that night. And, once begun, it could not be stopped. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f956e36 | Once upon a time, there was a ghoul who fell in love with a daughter of the port of Innsmouth. To say the least, her parents would hardly have looked upon this as an acceptable state of affairs. She, destined one day to descend through abyssal depths to the splendor of many spired Y'ha-nthlei in the depths well beyond the shallows of Jeffreys Ledge. She might have the fortune to marry well, perhaps, even, taking for herself a husband from a.. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| de5be03 | Somewhere in our early teen years it's inevitable that our parents become sources of great embarrassment to us, held accountable for everything they are and aren't, could've been or should never be. Before things can get to that stage, though, it sometimes goes the other direction. We realize, even if we can't articulate it with the same sharpness with which we sense it, that once the bloom is off the earliest years of childhood, we stand r.. | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 6bfa716 | If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat--" Now" | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 6cfc728 | Only fools and the dead never change their mind. | Ellen Datlow |