Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.
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