When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.
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TRISHA LEAVER If our only objective was to avoid casualties, we would abandon Iraq. We have to risk increased casu... ANDREW KREPINEVICH When circumstances feel as if they are turning surreal, like the current political situation. We can... ANITA B. SULSER Bush is our man. We don't have an alternative. I am not going to abandon him over this, but it is a ... JOHN DOOLITTLE The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON It's a party that we have protected with our blood and our souls and we will continue to do so. ALAA SANAKRA We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their th... C. JOYBELL C. We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world. ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our ... BECKY ALIGADA I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL As our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines defend the nation, ... they must know that their countr... JERRY SIEGEL We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflec... GRAY SCOTT We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency. DAVID PETRAEUS It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon... JOSIAH STAMP Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communicati... ROY T. BENNETT It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL What did we care, any one of the three of us, where we sat or how we lived, when youth throbbed hot ... ARTHUR DOYLE I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home... SETH ADAM SMITH When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peacea... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And ... ABIGAIL WASHBURN There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those in... PATRICK HENRY When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everythin... MICHAEL HUFFINGTON We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different becaus... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls... JEAN ROSTAND If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us. MIKE KLEPPER Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our... JUN MAEDA But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and... MATTHEW ARNOLD But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, a... MATTHEW ARNOLD A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of ou... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ... CELESTINE L. GRAY Our World is run mental disorderly! MAURICE SPEES The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpo... ERNST MACH Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately t... ASHIM SHANKER Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the... 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TERRY PRATCHETT Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv... TERRY PRATCHETT You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag... TERRY PRATCHETT A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand... TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a... TERRY PRATCHETT Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet... TERRY PRATCHETT I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th... TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi... TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done. TERRY PRATCHETT Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ... TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe... TERRY PRATCHETT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ... TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ... QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. TERRY RILEY It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ... TERRY EAGLETON Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo... TERRY PRATCHETT Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu... ELLEN TERRY There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w... TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro... TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea... TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. TERRY PRATCHETT